Музыкальные стили vs. Саундтреки

Кишмиш · 18 авг 2017

Мне всегда нравилось, что в игровых саундтреках больше свободы и экспериментов чем в киношных, по-крайней мере обобщенно и до определенной степени. Хотя чем больше бюджет надо отбить - тем меньше творческой свободы. С другой стороны, всякое indie теперь вообще развязало руки, да и не только.

Тем не менее, многие жанры и стили музыки не так часто находят дорожку до игроостов, а хотелось бы побольше. В этом посте приведу примеры с обеих сторон ("просто музыка" и саундтреки игр).

Space Ambient

Flowing and relaxing, Ambient music often employs sequencers along with cosmic synthesizers which are played in a sweeping and gradual manner. The successive ascending and descending rhythms are enhanced by almost imperceptible patterns in order to create a resonating, distant psychedelic sound. It emerged in the early 1970s from the ambient side of Progressive Electronic with the specific purpose to attune the listener's mind to a state of cosmic awareness. New Age music also exerted a great influence in the later development of this genre. Notable artists: Steve Roach, Michael Stearns, Jonn Serrie, Constance Demby, and Telomere.
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Эмбиент в общем виде - частый посетитель игр, но спейсэмб вставляют, конечно, во всяческие космосимы. Еще заметка: расцвет жанра пришелся на эпоху аналоговых синтов, а в игроостах обычно софтовые решения.

Tribal Ambient

Tribal ambient combines the theory and atmosphere of Ambient music with traditional instruments and sounds. The use of percussion is the genre's most common feature, with a distinctly hypnotic sound created by drums from the Traditional Folk Music of regions such as West Africa, South East Asia and the Greater Antilles. These include congas, tablas, djembe, bongos and gourd, goblet and Taos drums, whilst more global instruments, percussion or otherwise, are also often used, such as bells, sticks, chimes, flutes and pipes. Together with the usage of Nature Recordings and calming, meditative drones, these lend the style a naturalistic, peaceful mood. Conversely, the style has also been blended with Dark Ambient by artists such as Muslimgauze and :zoviet*france:, producing a more unnerving atmosphere. Vocals are used sparingly, if at all, and often lend a "shamanic" or spiritual feel to the music. Due to mixing live traditional instrumentation with sequenced synth, tribal ambient sometimes shares similarities and overlaps with forms of New Age music.
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Подобная музыка часто мелькает на "отдельных уровнях", но полностью чтобы... припоминаю только Akuji the Heartless

Minimalism

Minimalism is a genre of music that was developed in the U.S. in the 1960s. It is generally associated with the composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, though there were several other composers who contributed to its development. It gained in popularity in the 1970s, and has been practiced by many American and European composers.

Minimalism is usually recognized for its repetitive nature and relatively static harmony, as heard in the Hindustani Classical Music-influenced, Drone-oriented music of Young and Riley. However, one key aspect of the genre's development was its use of process. One example of this is Riley's In C (1964). The piece is composed of 53 short musical fragments of varying length. A pulse is established, and performers start repeating the first fragment a number of times, then proceed to the next fragment, working this way sequentially through all 53 fragments; the decision of how many times to repeat the fragment and when to move on to the next is left to the individual performer. Steve Reich's earlier tape works, It's Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966), were created by allowing different tape machines playing identical material to gradually slip out of synchronization (or "out of phase") with each other. Later, he adapted this technique to his instrumental works; Piano Phase (1967) employs the phasing effect by having an ensemble repeat a pattern, then requiring one performer to accelerate gradually until they are playing the pattern one beat "out of phase" with the rest of the ensemble.
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Вспоминается нежная лирика из Lost in Shadow

Gamelan

Gamelan is a style of traditional music originated in the island of Java in Indonesia and representing part of a larger Southeast Asian "gong-chime culture". Strictly speaking, the term "Gamelan" refers to ensemble of instruments—typically consisting of metallophones and gongs, sometimes augmented with drums, flutes and human voices—but the term is often used to describe the music played by those ensembles as well.

Over time gamelan music evolved into many variations, ranging from exceptionally slow-paced and conservative "royal court" styles to fast-paced and entertainment-oriented "village dance" styles. However, almost all kinds of traditional gamelan performance have three distinct features:

They are very, sometimes even extremely long from Western perception (up to six hours of continuous playing without distinguishable breaks between the pieces)
The composition serves only as a basis for 'controlled improvisation', this usually taking form of slight variations in ornamentations
In a traditional setting, gamelan performance is almost never given for the sake of music in itself. It almost always serves as an accompaniment for a ritual / dance performance / drama / shadow puppet performance.
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Конечно, встречается в индонезийских играх (например, в DreadOut или INheritage: Boundaries of Existence), а так практически больше и нигде.

Jungle

Jungle is a fast-paced, often chaotic-sounding form of Electronic Dance Music which had a strong underground following in the United Kingdom during the early 1990s. Its sound is built upon heavy basslines, greatly syncopated breakbeats and occasional use of vocals. Originally used synonymously with Drum and Bass, the term Jungle is now typically used to refer to the earlier, rougher, rave-influenced side of the genre. It tends to emphasise a Reggae influence, best exhibited in the subgenre of Ragga Jungle.
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Родственный (вообще, легко спутать, сам наверное путаю) драм-н-бас часто мелькал в играх 90х/00х. Но не настолько)

Electro

Electro is a genre of Electronic Dance Music which emerged with the development of early sampling technology and the introduction of the Roland TR-808 drum machine and is closely associated with Hip Hop's formative years in the early to mid 1980s. The style is defined by TR-808 sounds arranged in syncopated rhythm patterns - often resembling the Funk breaks used in Hip Hop beats - with simple funky bass lines. Other instrument parts are typically created with synthesizers, and vocoder vocals are commonly used and delivered in a deadpan fashion to accentuate the robotic quality of the music. While many of the definitive Electro tracks are, in essence, also Hip Hop, in many instances it is simply electronic Funk and can also be considered an evolutionary link between the work of Electronic groups in the 1970s, such as Kraftwerk, and Techno in the decade following. Electro's influence has long outlived its initial popularity, with nearly every popular Electronic Dance Music genre at some point giving way to a hybridized Electro subgenre.
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Если ничего не попутал, то за этим - на Амигу

Gabber

Gabber, meaning "buddy" in Dutch, is a fast-paced, energetic form of Techno, often in the 160-220 BPM range. Its hallmark is a distorted kick sound, which is overdriven to the point of creating a square wave that forms a recognizable melodic tone, as well as synthesised melodies and pitch-shifted vocals. Emerging in the Netherlands, it soon found popularity in the early 1990s, and continues to have a strong underground following in the rave and club scenes across many European countries.
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Встречал подобное только в темах боссов для шмапов.

Happy Hardcore

Happy Hardcore is a highly energetic form of electronic dance music, developed during the late 1990s, characterised by an extremely fast-paced 4/4 beat, saccharine vocals, piano riffs and spacey effects. Its popularity was generally contained within Europe initially - particularly Britain, Germany and The Netherlands - although in recent years it has spawned record labels worldwide specialising in the genre. In contrast with many other styles of Hardcore [EDM], the genre tends to be very bouncy and upbeat in nature, hence the "happy" portion of its name.
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Даже не знаю, где кроме японских танцевалок такое помещали.

Acid Techno

Evolving out of the Acid House scene and arguably from German Trance in addition, Acid Techno combines the elements provided from the aforementioned relatives into the frame of regular Techno, tending to be calmer and using a series of Roland instruments like the TB-303 and other synthesizers to utilize its layers. This includes unconventional adjustments among these instruments to achieve its famous "acid" sound.
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И хотя в 90е оно мелькало в играх, можно было бы и побольше (и с реальными tb-303).

Trip-Hop

Trip Hop is a style of Downtempo music that grew out of the Bristol underground in the early 90s. The term was originally coined by Mixmag in a review of DJ Shadow but it wasn't until the mid 90s that the term's definition was solidified to define the emerging Bristolian scene of downtempo from groups such as Massive Attack and Portishead, both of which went on to have large commercial success in the UK.

While it shares the constant and repetitive beats of downtempo, trip hop is texturally a little more busy often using a wide array of samples of both live and electronic instrumentals, with offbeat turntable scratches and vocal melodies whilst almost always maintaining a mellow tempo in 4/4. The beats often invoke a surreal, trippy, dreamy and yet slightly dark atmosphere.

While some (particularly earlier) trip hop was instrumental or used rapped vocals that shared traits with Hip Hop, most trip hop uses female vocals taking influence from Contemporary R&B and Soul that normally sound light and ethereal with lyrical themes being abstract and metaphorical.

The trip hop movement has had a considerably broad influence on the mainstream and has become a popular style both in and outside the UK. No longer considered regionally-centric, trip hop has been a term used to describe a plethora of acts that have melded the trip hop sound with different genres and music scenes, but all are still derivative of the early Bristolian sound.
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Конечно же, вспоминаются мелодичные треки из Silent Hill'ов.

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Кишмиш · 18 авг 2017

IDM

Intelligent Dance Music, most commonly known as IDM, is a term invented in the early 1990s to describe the sound of a number of electronic musicians who sought to develop dance music beyond the clubs and more into the realm of home listening. The term itself has been the subject of intense criticism, with many citing the "Intelligent" portion as elitist in nature. Aphex Twin, an artist frequently cited as a pioneer of the scene, stated in a 1997 interview: “I just think it's really funny to have terms like that. It's basically saying 'this is intelligent and everything else is stupid.' It's really nasty to everyone else's music.” Regardless of the arguments surrounding its label, many acts enjoyed a strong underground following after the inception of the term, with Sheffield’s Warp Records introducing acts like Autechre, The Orb’s Dr. Alex Paterson, and B12 on its famed Artificial Intelligence compilation, as well as a number of artists who would enjoy critical acclaim during the second half of the decade, such as Boards of Canada and Prefuse 73.

By the mid-nineties, IDM’s style tended to veer away from the Techno and House sound that inspired it, with a number of the key figures either choosing to go further down the path of experimentation or employing a much more beat-focused approach to their work. Squarepusher, another one of Warp’s biggest names, combined his typically reckless style of Drum and Bass with a number of techniques more commonly found on Jazz Fusion records, further stretching IDM as a useful descriptor of a particular sound, and making it more of an umbrella term. Attempts have been made to alter the name of the genre and shake off the negative connotations, with Aphex Twin’s “braindance” description of his own music and Warp’s “electronic listening music” proving somewhat popular. Regardless, IDM remains a strong modern scene, with artists like Richard Devine and Arovane continuing this often difficult-to-define style of music.
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До недавнего бума инди-игр, встречалось в игроостах очень редко. К слову, мне музыка Осаму Сато нравится больше, чем Афекс Твин

Breakcore

An extreme form of electronic music which uses cut-up breakbeats and atonal noise, often sequenced at incredibly high tempos, to create a harsh and often unsettling sound. Use of the Amen Break is common, though not necessarily a requirement. Pioneers of the genre include Venetian Snares, Shitmat and The Flashbulb.
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Люблю бреккор. Тоже не хватает.

Fado

Fado is a popular form of traditional music from Portugal. It mainly consists of melancholy songs usually accompanied by Portuguese guitars or classical guitars. Fado probably appeared around the 1820s or 1840s and was probably influenced by Brazilian and North African Arabic impulses. The first known Fado singer was Maria Severa and the most famous Fado singer around the world is Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999). The Portuguese word "fado" means "fate" in English.
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Как же это красиво. Да... Хоть в одной португальской игре, а?

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Ладно, пока хватит Пока затронул в основном самое такое из электронщины (за парой исключений), а ведь еще океаны тяжеляка, джаза, и чего только угодно...

@R4kk00n , @true-grue , послушал бы вас по сабжу.

Mel Shlemming · 18 авг 2017

Не надо так.
Надо вот
так

R4kk00n · 19 авг 2017

@Mel Shlemming, зачем? Без клика на картинки с изображением плеера Ютуба они остаются просто картинками. А без картинок вообще непонятно о чём речь без дополнительных движений.

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@Кишмиш, меня игровые саундтреки редко радуют. В них чаще всего встречается такой специфический игрово-саундтречный мейнстрим, да иногда что-нибудь остро-популярное на момент выхода минус год-другой. Например, в сравнительно недавней DmC музыку написали пополам Noisia и Combichrist. У Нойзии получилось вот такое:

Не могу сказать, что это то, чего я бы от них ждал. Комбикрайсту - моё почтение.

В последний раз остропопулярной хорошая музыка была в 98-ом. А в 99-ом вышел Need for Speed: High Stakes, который я до сих пор считаю игрой с лучшим OST евар (плейлист как плейлист не хочет эмбедиться, поэтому как получится):

Половина треков лицензированы, но и то, что штатные композиторы EA написали, тоже ничего себе так.
В третьей части был неплохой сандтрек, но тот я почему-то не помню. Писали те же Rom di Prisco и Saki Kaskas
В гонки в те годы часто вставляли что-нибудь в этом духе. В Test Drive'ах, Gran Turism'ах и даже Wipeout'ах сидел биг бит и прогрессив хаус. Wipeout XL я играл на PSX в основном ради саундтрека (потому что на PC у них с лицензированием что-то не получилось и там всю музыку написал Cold Storage):

Джангл в игры практически не попал, а вот d'n'b разных попсовых направлений встречался.
Mars Matrix - игра аркадная, поэтому треки в ней короткие (и не очень разнообразные). Но я вот сейчас переслушал некоторые вещи и не понял, почему они мне раньше казались d'n'b'шными.

Может быть, я его с Zanac Neo перепутал:

(Если будете искать игру - она называется Zanac x Zanac, выходила на PSX и, похоже, только в Японии). Часть треков написал уже упоминавшийся @Кишмишом Daisuke Nagata, по-моему, d'n'b треки его. Но там ещё хаус и транс есть зачем-то. Потом они вместе с Kou Hayashi работали над OST к Radirgy, там какой-то галимый speed garage, - такое сами ищите.

Зато в Shock Troopers - почти как у Apollo 440 (вот конкретно в начале Neo Tokyo):

Гитарные сэмплы, правда, оставляют желать... Но есть и всеми любимые сэмплы из дансхолл клэшей (в треке Jungle Rhythm)!

А самое близкое к хардкору (британскому электронному, а не американскому панковскому), что я слышал в играх, было в Raiden Fighters (а также во второй и Jet)

303 неплохая во второй части. В первой почему-то звук грязнее. Может быть, мало места для сэмплов было, ADPCM'ом жали сильнее...

Taw Tulki · 24 авг 2017

Dx-Ball 2. При упоминании об этой мне в первую очередь приходит в голову ее музыка, которая в детстве будоражила мой тогда еще неокрепший ум. Ничего подобного от других игр я тогда не слышал. Даже сейчас, слушая ее, я словно погружаюсь в экстаз. Такая сложная и такая необычнаянеобычная, в духе Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Herbie Hancock, Peter Gabriel и даже немного Курехина.

true-grue · 3 сен 2017

А, например, в игре Cannon Fodder была привязчивая поп-песенка (в духе UB40 и подобного). Впрочем, вы ее, думаю, хорошо помните

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Музыкальные стили vs. Саундтреки

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Mel Shlemming Кровавый большевик

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