Music Of The Spheres

Fascinating article on the newly lucrative career possibilities of video game scoring.  I rarely listen to the music playing in my games, but sometimes it can be quite effective.  I was a little sorry to see that many composers fail to take this seriously - sometimes they play for only seconds to compose a section’s music, leading me to believe that they may be taking advantage of people who are not musically inclined to begin with and who don’t have a clear vision for where their game’s mood needs to go (a gaming nouveau riche?).  Watching special features on Wall-E, I was surprised to see how involved Andrew Stanton was in the musical direction. 

Fallout and Bioshock get it right, though.