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# Composer Nico Mulhy: "I’m positive I understand how augmented chords change an emotional texture because of Nintendo music."
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/composer-nico-mulhy-im-positive-i-understand-how-augment/
- Published: 2011-06-07T14:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:53:23.000Z
- Description: The fine folks at Snarkmarket pointed to this excerpt from an NPR interview with classical composer Nico Mulhy on the connections between a Nintendo childhood and composition: For me, living in the country, playing a video game was sort of like music minus one: The actions of my hands informed, in a
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The fine folks at [Snarkmarket](http://www.snarkmarket.com/?ref=killscreen.com) pointed to this excerpt from an [NPR interview](http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/05/25/136579553/nico-muhly-gaming-ones-way-into-classical-music?ref=killscreen.com) with classical composer [Nico Mulhy](http://nicomuhly.com/?ref=killscreen.com) on the connections between a Nintendo childhood and composition:

> For me, living in the country, playing a video game was sort of like music minus one: The actions of my hands informed, in a strange way, the things I heard. Collect a coin, and a delighted glockenspiel sounds. Move from navigating a level above ground to one below ground, and the eager French chromaticism of the score changes to a spare, beat-driven minimal texture. Hit a star, and suddenly the score does a metric modulation. All of these things come to bear in a later musical education; I’m positive I understand how augmented chords change an emotional texture because of Nintendo music.