Two concert series -- one populist, the other highbrow. Both showcasing videogame music. Let's get it on!
Wired News is running a piece about two new tours -- the resurrected Video Games Live series and Live! A Videogame Symphony. As the article explains, each will be going after a specific audience and it's going to be interesting to see which approach (if any) is more successful...or if it'll devolve into a Highlander type of situation. Actually, I'm a bit stunned this is happening at all. I was fortunate enough to attend the inaugural VGL concert last July. Shortly after that performance, the tour lost so much momentum (due to poor ticket sales and, in general, an unenthusiastic response from the concert-going public) that the organizers had to pull the plug.
Part of the problem, of course, is that orchestral concert series are, by definition, a fairly entrenched form of highbrow entertainment. That was what made the original VGL so weird; watching all these videogame fanatics at the Hollywood Bowl last summer, toting around their picnic baskets, munching on cheese and sipping Pinot Noir. As Kohler aptly notes, it was "a riveting marriage of low and high brow."
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Posted by: news | July 12, 2013 at 11:48 PM