October 23, 2019

Composer Eímear Noone: Mozart would have loved making game music

"More people are listening to orchestral music through video games than ever before in the history of recorded music” Irish composer and conductor Eímear Noone makes an obvious, albeit interesting point about classical music today in Guardian interview. She worked on games such as 'World of Warcraft', 'Diablo III' and 'Hearthstone', and describes how there needs to be a dedicated part of composition for certain situation and atmosphere in the game, but still, those parts need to work with others – "It’s like a Rubik’s cube puzzle! This is the kind of thing Mozart would have enjoyed – he loved puzzles". Different from movie scores today is that the "video game directors still embrace the big theme, and that’s good for composers because we want to write something more involving”. Listen to her composition 'Suite' from 'World of Warcraft' below.