Games
Learning Game Melodies by Ear, Starting With Ocarina Songs
A reader wrote to me after a piece on game soundtracks and asked something I hear often in different words: "I can hum the...
Music editor, page 2 of 6
Darius grew up with Persian classical music at home and video game soundtracks on his headphones. He edits Yek Nava and writes about how music shapes the way we remember games.
Games
A reader wrote to me after a piece on game soundtracks and asked something I hear often in different words: "I can hum the...
Games
For as long as people have played games, some of them have turned the game's volume down and put on their own music instead.
Music Basics
Nobody picks up an instrument because they want to play slowly.
Games
Spend an hour in an online game and you might hear its main theme a hundred times, yet a good score never grates.
Games
Music gets the credit, but a game's sense of place often rests on quieter work: the crunch of a footstep, the creak of a door,...
Games
The bright, buzzing melodies of early game consoles were born from strict necessity.