Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous
OSV Site News – May 2019
Hello dear readers of OSV. As you may have noticed, we’ve been on a bit of a hiatus in terms of content for the past two months. We’re in the process of planning the future of Original Sound Version and consolidating how we report on VGM and media music moving forward. The site has been struggling in the past year or so, and we’ve come to the conclusion that something needs to change in order for us to continue creating content and sharing our love of gaming and media music with the community.
While plans are firming up in terms of the next step in the life of OSV, we’ll be continuing to be on-break in terms of writing up new content. Rest assured that we love reporting on VGM and game music-related news and will continue to do so moving forward, and we will update you on the next step when it becomes solidified.
Thank you for being our readers and our community and we’ll keep you posted on things to come.
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Events, Film, Game Music, Miscellaneous
Vince DiCola to Debut New Game Soundtracks and Band at Upcoming Show
August 30, 2018 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Vince DiCola to Debut New Game Soundtracks and Band at Upcoming Show Share this
Vince DiCola, composer of Transformers: The Motion Picture, Rocky IV and Angry Birds has started venturing into live performances more this year. At this past Super MAGFest, he played live with VGM band LonelyRollingStars and performed pieces from his aforementioned media which has gained him a underground nerd following. Having tasted the love of video game music geeks, he’s now venturing into other live performances and specifically will be debuting new music in West Hollywood, California on September 20, 2018 at the famous Whiskey-a-Go-Go.
Several months ago my daughter took it upon herself to start up a dialog with the folks at the Whisky about the idea of her father performing there. After all the details had been worked out I decided to use this opportunity to perform material from my film work and some videogames I scored with my partner Kenny Meriedeth. This will be the first live performance of some of this music, including tracks from the arena fighter Mighty Fight Federation and the sequel to Saturday Morning RPG! I will also be debuting a new progressive rock band called SAGA STAR at this show. This promises to be an exciting night of music so we hope to see you there! – Vince DiCola
DiCola will be debuting the new game music along with a progressive rock ensemble with his writing partner Kenny Meriedeth, film and game composer Cody Carpenter, George “norg” Nowik of the LonelyRollingStars and more. You can check out more information about the show and nab tickets over at Brown Paper Tickets.
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Game Music, Miscellaneous
SoundTrack Cologne – Announces Composer Lineup for “Music in Games” Event
July 6, 2018 | Harry Gill | Comments Off on SoundTrack Cologne – Announces Composer Lineup for “Music in Games” Event Share this
If you haven’t heard, SoundTrack_Cologne is Germany’s largest music event on music and sound in films, games, tv and other media. The event takes place on 22 – 25th August 2018, this year. The event itself is divided into three days, separately themed as: Games (August 23rd), Film (August 24th), TV (August 25th). For this article, we’ll focus on the “Music in Games” day of the event!
Most importantly though, they recently announced what gaming composers will be attending the event – who are completely new to the event: Takeshi Furukawa (The Last Guardian), Pieter Schosser (Destiny 2) and returning guest Garry Schyman (BioShock). The day of the event will involve them talking about what makes videogames scores special (their characteristics), their personal experiences and any upcoming projects they have to share. There will also be a QA section.
By the end of the day, Gareth Coker (Ori and the Blind Forest) and Richard Jacques (James Bond 007: Blood Stone, Mass Effect, Headhunter) will be in attendance for a panel discussion. These two previously attended SoundTrack_Cologne.
Interested in attending this one-in-a-kind event? You’re able to get a discount for your ticket if you book before July 8th, EST time.
If you need to communicate with them, or just snoop in to see what else they’re up to, then here’s their Facebook and Twitter.
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Game Music, Miscellaneous
Matron Maestras – Satoe Terashima (Spotlight)
April 13, 2018 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Matron Maestras – Satoe Terashima (Spotlight) Share this
When we started the Matron Maestras articles back a few years ago, I had made it a bit of a challenge of mine to track down a particular composer who I knew very little about outside a particular game series. Satoe Terashima’s legacy in game composing is somewhat of a mystery, and while I could not track down any leads as to what she might have done beyond her days with Konami (or even any photos of her), I nonetheless felt that her body of work was enough to still warrant her a spotlight on the series.
You could call her a “Lost Matron Maestra”. Hopefully this will help her work be a little less lost to the vast annals of game music history.
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Chip Music, Miscellaneous
Chiptunes = WIN Group Presents Chips = FLIPPED Full Album
March 14, 2018 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Chiptunes = WIN Group Presents Chips = FLIPPED Full Album Share this
About 5 years ago, the folks over at the Chiptunes = WIN group decided to invert their process by taking previously-make chiptune tracks and having artists cover them with live instrumentation. Called Chiptunes = WTFLOL, the album was a six-track EP and was a nice deviation from their previous format.
Fast-forward to today, and those same folks have released an entire album in the same format, featuring 11 tracks from some of the top names in the VGM community. Chips = FLIPPED takes the same process of re-arranging previously released chiptunes and doing them them up with live instruments. Featuring artists such as DJ Cutman, Grant “Stemage” Henry & Erik “Viking Guitar” Peabody, and even big names in the chip and game music industry such a Makeup & Vanity Set and Machinae Supremacy, the Chips = FLIPPED album brings out some pretty big guns.
It only took 5 years to crank out a full length sequel to the original ‘WTFLOL’ EP. Worth the wait? You damn well better believe it! #FlipIt (╯°□°)╯︵ ♪♫♬
100% of ALL payments are considered donations to fund further Chiptunes = WIN projects. – Brandon “President Hoodie” Hood, Chiptunes = WIN Head
The Chips = FLIPPED album is currently available digitally on Bandcamp at the name-your-price option, or you can purchase it and all the other Chiptunes = WIN albums on an 8GB jumpdrive for $15.
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Game Music, Miscellaneous
Christopher Tin Breaks Kickstarter Funding Record with “To Shiver The Sky”
March 8, 2018 | Patrick Gann | Comments Off on Christopher Tin Breaks Kickstarter Funding Record with “To Shiver The Sky” Share this
If you’ve been a long-time reader of OSV, the name Christopher Tin should be familiar to you. To date, he is the only composer to win a Grammy for video game music (an updated recording of Civilization IV‘s theme song “Baba Yetu”). He has written insanely catchy pop songs about love, adapting renaissance and enlightenment era poetry into new forms, in Stereo Alchemy’s sole release “God of Love.”
And now, he’s creating what looks to be the capstone to a trilogy of Song Cycles. The first, “Calling All Dawns,” included the recording of Baba Yetu that one the Grammy award. That album’s theme was about life, death, and rebirth/renewal. The second, and my favorite to date, is “The Drop That Contained the Sea.” This album’s theme was water, which nourishes life, but also has the power to destroy. In both of these song cycles, Tin would select ancient religious texts, poems, and other traditional works of various world cultures and have them sung by groups or individuals in their native tongue. Different song, different language. It was literally a world tour every time.
Now, Tin is back with “To Shiver the Sky.” The theme? Mankind learning to enter, and conquer, the sky. Like his first Song Cycle album, Tin pulls in some game music, this time the theme song for Civilization VI, “Sogno di Volare.” That particular song had its groundings in the movement from renaissance to enlightenment, with a particular focus on Leonardo da Vinci, the “renaissance man” himself, who had dreamt up his own ideas for how mankind might find a way to fly. “To Shiver the Sky” will continue the pattern of using ethnomusical traditions, texts, and languages, and will cover many eras of mankind looking skyward and asking “How do I get here? How do I enter this daring space?”
The extra-big news is that this album, which was filed as a Classical Music project on Kickstarter, has become the highest-funded Classical Music project ever on Kickstarter. That milestone happened nearly one week ago. As time passes, more and more stretch goals are being met. At $160k, we unlocked “Silver Wing,” a piece Tin wrote using a poem from Emily Dickinson, and at $180k we unlocked a to-be-announced piece … language will either be in English or Korean!
As of this post, there are five days until the campaign closes. Do not miss your chance to own this! If history is any indicator, this album is sure to blow your socks off (click the various links above for our coverage of Tin’s past works, you’ll see that I’m not alone in the opinion I hold about Tin’s track record). Click here to access the Kickstarter page and decide for yourself if you wish to pledge!
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Doujin, Miscellaneous
Prescription for Sleep: Memories of Mana Now Available Free
March 2, 2018 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Prescription for Sleep: Memories of Mana Now Available Free Share this
With the recent release of the classic RPG Secret of Mana on the Playstation 4, the gang responsible for the Prescription for Sleep: Game Music Lullibies series of albums have released one of the tracks from their Lullabies of Mana album free for download.
“Memories of Mana” is an original track composed and performed by GENTLE LOVE (Norihiko Hibino on saxophone and Etrian Odyssey pianist AYAKI) that is inspired by the world and themes of Secret of Mana. It was recorded after the duo had completed work on 11 arrangements from the Secret of Mana soundtrack for the Prescription for Sleep: Lullabies of Mana album, which is currently available on iTunes, Spotify, and more.
Always nice to see extra love being thrown at the Secret of Mana music. You can nab the free track over on the GENTLE LOVE Bandcamp page.
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