Word: complexity
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...Video game music is really underrated still,” Nakama says.While most people envision video game music as the typified Super Mario Brothers’ theme song of the ’80s, over the past five to 10 years, much of its composition has moved to extremely complex orchestral scoring. It no longer fulfills what Sweet calls the “assumption that video game music is a bunch of blips and boops and beeps.” THE ART OF VIDEO GAMESThe recent recession has illuminated the degree to which art is dependent on its patrons. Economy...
...home on Broadway.In an attempt to forge a connection with students involved in theater, Paulus provided the tickets. “Diane Paulus is really passionate about wanting to strengthen ties with students and the OFA,” says Eric C. Engel, director of the Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall Complex and one of the chaperones of the trip. “It’s a big deal to open a show like this, so it’s a great opportunity to celebrate her work and support her and learn from her. Offering tickets to the rehearsal...
...acts, have emerged over the last decade that have remained committed to bringing about positive social change? It’s a strange way to come about a point, I know, but Michelle Obama has made clear that women—arms and all—can be complex, capable, and still whole. This is a sentiment missing from current mainstream hip-hop, and one that could easily be echoed by its female artists. Blessed be the day when Beyoncé and Sasha Fierce are one and the same.—Columnist Ruben L. Davis can be reached...
From its dark opening scene, Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen” establishes a complex blend of murder mystery, social commentary, and unrepentant action flick. This mood is immediately set as brawny Edward Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) fails to fight off an unidentified attacker in his home. Viewers—assuming they have not read the graphic novel—can only speculate as to the assassin’s identity, but Blake knows, telling his killer that their world is a joke before he is hurled out a high-rise window.Creating this world has required...
...growing interest in eastern European gastronomic culture, and the premium attached to anything produced by artisanal methods, have been very good news for Tokaj (or Tokay) - the enormously sweet, complex wine produced only in Hungary's northeastern Tokaji region. Made from individually picked grapes that have shriveled and botrytized - a oenological term for the "noble rot" mold infection that intensely concentrates the fruit's sugars - Tokaj suffered from cost-cutting production methods during Hungary's communist era, but fresh investment (some of it foreign) is rectifying the situation. (See 10 things to do in Moscow...