Would you be interested in being on board?" So yes, I mean absolute elation, and honestly felt like a little bit of an opportunity that I better not screw up.īefore working with Civ IV, did you consider composing for video games a viable route for you as a composer? When I got the call saying, "Hey, so, Civ IV is a thing that's happening. And so I'd been obsessively playing at that very moment. A couple of months later, he sent me a copy of Civ III. I had Civ on my mind because when I had met up with him at our five-year reunion, he had just finished doing Civ 3. I think it was, 'I'd better do a darn good job.' It's been mentioned before, though, that I grew up actually playing Civ. The interview is edited for length and clarity.ĭo you remember what your gut reaction was way back when Soren Johnson reached out to you and asked you to compose the title track for Civilization IV? Join us as we chat with Christopher about where video game music was, what it's like to compose the first video game music to win a Grammy, to where video game soundtracks might be headed. Tin is a champion of video game music and works passionately to grow the perception of video game soundtracks in the wider culture of classical music. We had an opportunity to sit down with the composer of the legendary title track for Civilization IV, Baba Yetu, Christopher Tin.
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