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Author : Michiel Kamp,Tim Summers,Mark Sweeney
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Video game music
ISBN : 178179197X
This book suggests a variety of new approaches to the study of game music.
Author : Tim Summers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107116870
Music is a central component of video games. This book provides methods and concepts for understanding how game music works.
Author : Michael Austin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781501308505
Music Video Games takes a look (and listen) at the popular genre of music games – video games in which music is at the forefront of player interaction and gameplay. With chapters on a wide variety of music games, ranging from well-known console games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band to new, emerging games for smartphones and tablets, scholars from diverse disciplines and backgrounds discuss the history, development, and cultural impact of music games. Each chapter investigates important themes surrounding the ways in which we play music and play with music in video games. Starting with the precursors to music games - including Simon, the hand-held electronic music game from the 1980s, Michael Austin's collection goes on to discuss issues in musicianship and performance, authenticity and “selling out,” and composing, creating, and learning music with video games. Including a glossary and detailed indices, Austin and his team shine a much needed light on the often overlooked subject of music video games.
Author : Duncan Williams,Newton Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319722726
This book presents an overview of the emerging field of emotion in videogame soundtracking. The emotional impact of music has been well-documented, particularly when used to enhance the impact of a multimodal experience, such as combining images with audio as found in the videogames industry. Soundtracking videogames presents a unique challenge compared to traditional composition (for example film music) in that the narrative of gameplay is non-linear – Player dependent actions can change the narrative and thus the emotional characteristics required in the soundtrack. Historical approaches to emotion measurement, and the musical feature mapping and music selection that might be used in video game soundtracking are outlined, before a series of cutting edge examples are given. These examples include algorithmic composition techniques, automated emotion matching from biosensors, motion capture techniques, emotionally-targeted speech synthesis and signal processing, and automated repurposing of existing music (for example from a players own library). The book concludes with some possibilities for the future.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643155528
Author : William Gibbons,Steven Reale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351253185
Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies offers the first scholarly approach focusing on music in the broad class of video games known as role-playing games, or RPGs. Known for their narrative sophistication and long playtimes, RPGs have long been celebrated by players for the quality of their cinematic musical scores, which have taken on a life of their own, drawing large audiences to live orchestral performances. The chapters in this volume address the role of music in popular RPGs such as Final Fantasy and World of Warcraft, delving into how music interacts with the gaming environment to shape players’ perceptions and engagement. The contributors apply a range of methodologies to the study of music in this genre, exploring topics such as genre conventions around music, differences between music in Japanese and Western role-playing games, cultural representation, nostalgia, and how music can shape deeply personal game experiences. Music in the Role-Playing Game expands the growing field of studies of music in video games, detailing the considerable role that music plays in this modern storytelling medium, and breaking new ground in considering the role of genre. Combining deep analysis with accessible personal accounts of authors’ experiences as players, it will be of interest to students and scholars of music, gaming, and media studies.
Author : Roger Moseley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520291249
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiry—from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles—enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard’s topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.
Author : Nicholas Cook,Richard Pettengill
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472051779
Musicologists and performance studies scholars reach across their disciplines to examine the role of performance in musical culture
Author : Melanie Fritsch,Tim Summers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781108473026
A wide-ranging survey of video game music creation, practice, perception and analysis - clear, authoritative and up-to-date.
Author : Andra Ivănescu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030042813
This book looks at the uses of popular music in the newly-redefined category of the nostalgia game, exploring the relationship between video games, popular music, nostalgia, and socio-cultural contexts. History, gender, race, and media all make significant appearances in this interdisciplinary work, as it explores what some of the most critically acclaimed games of the past two decades (including both AAA titles like Fallout and BioShock, and more cult releases like Gone Home and Evoland) tell us about our relationship to our past and our future. Appropriated music is the common thread throughout these chapters, engaging these broader discourses in heterogeneous ways. This volume offers new perspectives on how the intersection between popular music, nostalgia, and video games, can be examined, revealing much about our relationship to the past and our hopes for the future.
Author : Karen Collins
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262033787
A distinguishing feature of video games is their interactivity, and sound plays an important role in this: a player's actions can trigger dialogue, sound effects, ambient sound, and music. This book introduces readers to the various aspects of game audio, from its development in early games to theoretical discussions of immersion and realism.
Author : Karen Collins
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780262312301
An examination of the player's experience of sound in video games and the many ways that players interact with the sonic elements in games. In Playing with Sound, Karen Collins examines video game sound from the player's perspective. She explores the many ways that players interact with a game's sonic aspects—which include not only music but also sound effects, ambient sound, dialogue, and interface sounds—both within and outside of the game. She investigates the ways that meaning is found, embodied, created, evoked, hacked, remixed, negotiated, and renegotiated by players in the space of interactive sound in games. Drawing on disciplines that range from film studies and philosophy to psychology and computer science, Collins develops a theory of interactive sound experience that distinguishes between interacting with sound and simply listening without interacting. Her conceptual approach combines practice theory (which focuses on productive and consumptive practices around media) and embodied cognition (which holds that our understanding of the world is shaped by our physical interaction with it). Collins investigates the multimodal experience of sound, image, and touch in games; the role of interactive sound in creating an emotional experience through immersion and identification with the game character; the ways in which sound acts as a mediator for a variety of performative activities; and embodied interactions with sound beyond the game, including machinima, chip-tunes, circuit bending, and other practices that use elements from games in sonic performances.
Author : William Gibbons,Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780197556160
Bringing together dozens of leading scholars from across the world to address topics from pinball to the latest in virtual reality, The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound is the most comprehensive and multifaceted single-volume source in the rapidly expanding field of game audio research.
Author : Lisa Scoggin,Dana Plank
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000871067
In both video games and animated films, worlds are constructed through a combination of animation, which defines what players see on the screen, and music and sound, which provide essential cues to action, emotion, and narrative. This book offers a rich exploration of the intersections between animation, video games, and music and sound, bringing together a range of multidisciplinary lenses. In fourteen chapters, the contributors consider similarities and differences in how music and sound structure video games and animation, as well as the animation within video games, and explore core topics of nostalgia, adaptation, gender and sexuality. Offering fresh insights into the aesthetic interplay of animation, video games, and sound, this volume provides a gateway into new areas of study that will be of interest to scholars and students across musicology, animation studies, game studies, and media studies more broadly.
Author : Jimena Aguilar Rodríguez,Federico Alvarez Igarzábal,Michael S. Debus,Curtis L. Maughan,Su-Jin Song,Miruna Vozaru,Felix Zimmermann
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839462645
Gaming has never been disconnected from reality. When we engage with ever more lavish virtual worlds, something happens to us. The game imposes itself on us and influences how we feel about it, the world, and ourselves. How do games accomplish this and to what end? The contributors explore the video game as an atmospheric medium of hitherto unimagined potential. Is the medium too powerful, too influential? A danger to our mental health or an ally through even the darkest of times? This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2019 and 2020 to provide answers to these questions.
