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a jaunt into musical geekery
May. 30th, 2007 | 11:46 pm
Did a bit more work on my new story, now renamed to a jauntier "Night's Plutonian Shore, Now in Primetime!"
I did not do quite as much work as I would have liked, because I spent too much time fooling with two new additions to my digital Music Library. Specifically, the soundtracks from Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.*
I am inordinately fond of computer game soundtracks. Of course, computer game soundtracks have come a long way from the "bloop bloop bleep" ** of yesteryear; nowadays, your average computer game soundtrack has a full orchestral score, even choral arrangements. One of the prizes of my collection is the original special edition soundtrack CD from Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire, which, ironically enough, is rare as dragon's teeth nowadays. Earlier this year I was pleased as punch to figure out a way to extract the splendidly operatic Heroes of Might and Magic V soundtrack from the game's data files (and I have the soundtracks from four of the five Heroes games). When my brother bought the Special Edition of World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, he had no use for the included soundtrack CD, so he gave it to me.
Anyway, back to the Elder Scrolls soundtracks. I think the Morrowind soundtrack is fairly good, but the Oblivion soundtrack is quite excellent; at a first listen, it sounds alternately Celtic and bombastic in a medieval sort of way. And bombastic is one of my favorite musical styles!
A variation on the old cliche: I may be musically shallow, but I knows what I likes.
-JM
*Oh, fear not, intellectual property advocates. I didn't pirate it or anything like that. The mp3 files were sitting right there in the game's data directory, and the game IS licensed for personal use, after all. It's only a technicality that I'm not actually playing the game whilst listening to the soundtrack.
**This does not stop me from listening to the 15 year old MIDI soundtrack of Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness on occasion.
I did not do quite as much work as I would have liked, because I spent too much time fooling with two new additions to my digital Music Library. Specifically, the soundtracks from Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.*
I am inordinately fond of computer game soundtracks. Of course, computer game soundtracks have come a long way from the "bloop bloop bleep" ** of yesteryear; nowadays, your average computer game soundtrack has a full orchestral score, even choral arrangements. One of the prizes of my collection is the original special edition soundtrack CD from Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire, which, ironically enough, is rare as dragon's teeth nowadays. Earlier this year I was pleased as punch to figure out a way to extract the splendidly operatic Heroes of Might and Magic V soundtrack from the game's data files (and I have the soundtracks from four of the five Heroes games). When my brother bought the Special Edition of World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, he had no use for the included soundtrack CD, so he gave it to me.
Anyway, back to the Elder Scrolls soundtracks. I think the Morrowind soundtrack is fairly good, but the Oblivion soundtrack is quite excellent; at a first listen, it sounds alternately Celtic and bombastic in a medieval sort of way. And bombastic is one of my favorite musical styles!
A variation on the old cliche: I may be musically shallow, but I knows what I likes.
-JM
*Oh, fear not, intellectual property advocates. I didn't pirate it or anything like that. The mp3 files were sitting right there in the game's data directory, and the game IS licensed for personal use, after all. It's only a technicality that I'm not actually playing the game whilst listening to the soundtrack.
**This does not stop me from listening to the 15 year old MIDI soundtrack of Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness on occasion.