For the first time, the BBC Proms will feature an orchestral video games performance featuring music familiar to gamers across the land. The Gaming Prom – From 8-Bit To Infinity, will feature music from several decades at The Royal Albert Hall on the 1st of August.
Not all have been confirmed, but so far they have announced musical scores from:
- Kingdom Hearts
- Shadow Of The Colossus
- Dear Esther
- Battlefield 2042
The BBC writes: “Fantastic worlds, epic adventures, complex characters and huge moral choices – the universe of computer gaming is a natural match for orchestral music, and in the 21st century games have created a huge and passionate global audience for some of the most vivid, ambitious and inventive music currently being written for symphony orchestra. In this first ever Gaming Prom, Robert Ames – best-known at the Proms for his explorations of sci-fi and electroacoustic music – takes an electronically expanded Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on an odyssey from the classic console titles of the 1980s, through Jessica Curry’s haunted soundscapes to the European concert premiere of music from Hildur Guðnadóttir’s and Sam Slater’s score for Battlefield 2042.”
Tickets are available here, alternatively, the performance will be broadcast on BBC Four on August 5.
