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The National Academy
of Recording Arts and Sciences has decided to allow music created for
interactive games to compete in the annual Grammy awards competition.
The Academy recently announced that it has created three new
categories of Grammy competition: Best Soundtrack Album for Motion
Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media; Best
Song for a Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media; and Best
Instrumental Composition for a Motion Picture, Television, or Other
Visual Media. The first Grammys for those
categories will be awarded at next year's ceremonies in February.
For Chance Thomas, senior music producer at Sierra On-Line,
Inc., this has been a relentless two-year crusade in spearheading the
petition to NARAS for consideration. "Game musicians now have
the opportunity to compete for the most prestigious musical award in the
entertainment industry," said Thomas. Thomas said the decision can
only be great for musicians. "It will certainly include the
proliferation of game music soundtrack CDs, bigger budgets for game
scores, the inclusion of more songs in games and
the influx of mainstream music makers into the game arena in greater
numbers than ever before."
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