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May 09, 2005
Stuck in a room you'd go crazy: Scoring vid games
The Reporter talks to composers about the lucrative new gig of scoring vid games: "Jesper Kyd, a Danish composer who regularly alternates between the two media, eagerly describes [getting] a reputation in the game world. He's done the scores for all four games in Eidos' "Hitman" franchise, as well as for the cinematics in Ubisoft's "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory" and music for 17 other titles. Six of the scores are sold separately on CDs... "I enjoy the challenge of writing music that people need to listen to over and over and over... It's very different from a movie soundtrack in which there may be a big action scene with lots of horns and aggressive sounds. Imagine having to listen to that 5 or 10 times in a row when your video game character is stuck in a room; I think you'd go crazy. And so I focus on creating a style of music that's entertaining, creative, has some meat to it, and hopefully is something you'd want to hear again and again."
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