11/06/03 - Latest News

Riffing on Tolkien
Luthien @ 4:29 pm EST

Torn Staffer Ostadan writes that the November 2003 issue of "Game Developer" magazine has an interesting six-page article, "Riffing on Tolkien", describintg the 'conceptualization, production, and dissemination of music in Vivendi Universal Games' Lord of the Rings titles.'

The author descirbes the how he created a 'musical style guide' for Tolkien's work, and how the music cues and textures he created were used by the individual composers for the various games.

This is one of several articles we've seen now on Vivendi's music, and it's refreshing to see as much time and attention put into the music as the game itself.