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solely dedicated to releasing video game music.
Work ing alongside partners such as Sega, Cap-
com and Konami, they’ve remastered a variety of
game soundtracks from their studio in London,
including Streets of Rage, Shinobi, and Metal Slug.
Their founder, Jamie Crook, tells me this is an-
other way for composers to be paid for their work.- “There has been a shift
where composers of indie
games are retaining the
rights to their music much
more often, which is obvi-
ously a positive thing,” he says.
“Publishers seeing that music isn’t
a disposable commodity associ-
ated with the game in the back-
ground, but a valuable asset in its
own right – that is satisfying.” - It’s no longer rare to see some of the world’s
biggest musicians composing music for video
games. Trent Reznor, Paul McCartney, Amon
Tobin, Hans Zimmer, Health, Neil Davidge,
Skrillex, Solar Fields and many more have all
done so. “I think, 10 years ago especially, making
music for a video game wasn’t seen as a cool
thing – but the whole perception has changed
now. It’s a very creative form,” says Dwyer. “It’s
seen as a new world to start diving into.” l
Clearly, no medium in the history of recorded
music can deliver such massive and instanta-
neous global exposure.”
- While streaming is credited for helping to
save the music industry from its stranglehold
of illegal downloads and piracy, video games
were helping it survive through the dark times
of the late 00s. The Aerosmith-themed ver-
sion of Guitar Hero made the band
more money than any of their
albums.
- The heyday of music
games like Guitar Hero has
passed, but now games in-
tegrate with services like
Spotify. Beat Fever is a mo-
bile game helping to gener-
ate better engagement be-
tween players and musicians: players tap along
to their favourite music and are then invited
to stream the tracks in full on platforms like
Spotify and Apple Music. When Steve Aoki’s
track Azukita was featured in the game for two
weeks, its streams increased by 2 .3m.
- “If you want a really, really interesting, jet-
propelled career as a composer you probably
wouldn’t go into ilm anymore; you would go
into video games,” says Charles Hazlewood, an
international conductor and advocate for the
wider appreciation of orchestral music.
VINYL RESURGENCE
- The vinyl resurgence is also helping to create
new opportunities for both video game compos-
ers and record labels. Data Discs is a record label
to deliver to guarantee, provide, ofer / global
international, worldwide / exposure visibility.
- to credit sth with/for to attribute sth with / to
survive through to keep going during / stranglehold
sufocation, here, action that threatens its very existence /
dark times diicult period / late end (of). - heyday peak, period of greatest success / to integrate
with to align with, work with / engagement interaction /
to tap along to to follow the rhythm with the ingers / to
be featured to appear, be present/included / to increase
to go up, rise / by here, to the amount of. - jet-propelled swift moving / to go, went, gone into
to choose to do it via / conductor person who directs an
orchestra / advocate defender, champion / wide broad,
extensive. - both each of two things / record label company that
makes and sells records, CDs /
solely exclusively / to be dedicated to to be devoted to /
to release here, to put on the market / alongside
together with / founder creator.- shift change, evolution / where here, in the sense that
/ indie independent (not distributed by a major label) / to
retain to keep / obviously clearly, evidently / disposable
which can be thrown away after use, here, temporary /
commodity product / in the background as a secondary
aspect / valuable precious, important / asset beneit,
advantage / in its own right on its own.
10. no longer not any more / so here, this / especially
particularly / whole entire / perception here, attitude /
form here, means of expression (artistic).
Qu’y a-t-il a de commun
entre la musique, le sport
et le chemin de fer?Réponse : a track une pisteExemples :
the soundtrack la bande sonore
the running track la piste d'athlétisme
a track suit un survêtement (de sport)
railway track les rails de chemin de ferSUR LE BOUT DE LA LANGUESUPPLÉMENT VIDÉO
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