Stonetoss on AI-generated art
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The best modern "art" I've ever come across is early videogame soundtracks. Uematsu is unironically the best composer of our time.
Visual art? Barely exists as a medium anymore. It's a vehicle for money laundering and fraud, wrapped up with a pretty little bow of pretentious fart sniffing. The closest thing you can get to a real artist in the modern world is Ansel Adams and he's been dead for half a century. Miss me with that schizophrenic, soup can bullshit.
I can't remember where I saw it, but someone was lambasting the death of progression in the classical music genre, AKA symphonies and stuff like that, before someone else chimed up and said that all major progression or further exploration of that genre in the modern era has been in video game soundtracks. Even modern soundtracks are doing more for symphonic music than anyone else. I think Nier Automata is a decent example of that.
Yep, classical music has been completely absorbed by the Japanese, who carry that particular torch with video games. Dancing Mad from FF6 for example, is Mozart quality and they made it with chiptunes.
I haven't played Nier but I have heard good things.
Nier music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPZekUCTMx8&list=PLrt6E1gMfuuBYMwITXmssW7AmcthummzS&ab_channel=DeaconofZoknoraam
An analyses on Nier automata music : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfskxqaY2d8&ab_channel=Polygon
That analysis missed some really important points.
What I loved about the nier soundtrack was its adaptive/dynamic system. Each of these already amazing songs had 4 (5 really) versions that vary in intensity, as more and more enemies join the fray the orchestra picks up, the chorus swells, and then seamlessly fades back down to gentle when things are less tense. It's not just that the songs are great, its that they swell and change in time with your actions as you play, 11/10
It's got a plethora of 'epic' scores, truely amazing battle tunes I could listen to endlessly https://soundcloud.com/schwarzwald/nier-automata-a-beautiful-song , some of the most amazing orchestral 'epic' songs around. Carmina burana and 1812 overture friendship is over, nier is my best friend now. The nier expansion to final fantasy also has some bangers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GidkSDUMI8E
It's one of the only games I own the soundtracks for, and one of the only soundtracks without a weak one. Oh sure I don't listen to the kid villiage song often, but in game it absolutely fits.
I think what's really interesting is that he's been playing with properly good sound for a while, going back to the drakengard soundtrack. I've never heard a more disjointed, tense, and hard to listen to battle theme. If reality is breaking, the drakengard ost is how it will sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLSmHwihXrg . It's a cacophonous halting skipping mess and it works perfectly. Experimental and doing something new without sticking a banana on the wall. Just enough oddity to be memorable, but good. The game as a whole was too expierimental and didnt hit the mark, but the ost hit that sweet spot I think.
All sampling and using classical music.
Japan really is carrying on the tradition, and they are doing so admirably.
You've got me sat here nerding out and ranting about all its good qualities and the lore. It's that good, cmon.