Well, this is kinda cool. I just stumbled onto an article that my boy Alejandro Quan-Madrid for Bitmob a ways back. I'm late but the news is no less intersting. Apparently, The Grammy’s are officially recognizing “Visual Media” in four categories – Best Compilation, Best Score, Best Song, and a confusing category called The Music for Visual Media.
This is pretty timely considering that Christopher Tin won the first ever Grammy for a theme song to a video game ("Baba Yet" for Civilization) last year. With the attention that games have been getting on late night talk shows like Jimmy Fallon and the ubiquitous marketing campaigns for triple A titles, it looks like niche is going nice.
Although, Madrid generally believes this is a good thing, he wonders if this is simply an attempt to give Hollywood film composers who have composed video game scores – like Hans Zimmer, Bear McCreary, or Clint Mansel – an extra category to win in. Implicit in his article, is the million dollar head-scratcher: does a smaller, less orchestral score like Baiyon’s work in PixelJunk Eden have a chance against, say, Harry Gregson-Williams’ score of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot?
It’s a good article that has a few links to related articles from The Independent and Industry Gamers. If you’re a gamer with a conscious, give it a read.
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