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9780754662112

From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754662112

  • ISBN10:

    075466211X

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2017-09-13
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Digital interactive audio is the future of audio in media - most notably video games, but also web pages, theme parks, museums, art installations and theatrical events. Despite its importance to contemporary multi-media, this is the first book that provides a framework for understanding the history, issues and theories surrounding interactive audio. Karen Collins presents the work of academics, composers and music programmers to introduce the topic from a variety of angles in order to provide a supplementary text for music and multimedia courses. The contributors cover practical and theoretical approaches, including historical perspectives, emerging theories, socio-cultural approaches to fandom, semiotic analyses, reception theory and case study analyses. The book offers a fresh perspective on media music, one that will complement film studies, but which will show the necessity of a unique approach when considering games music.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Industries and Synergies
The new MTV? Electronic arts and 'playing' music
Marketing music through computer games: the case of Poets of the Fall and Max Payne 2
Ringtones and Mobile Phones
Could ringtones be more annoying?
Indeterminate adaptive digital audio for games on mobiles
Instruments and Interactions
Theoretical approaches to composing dynamic music for video games
Realising groundbreaking adaptive music
The composition-instrument: emergence, improvisation, and interaction in games and new media
Techniques and Technologies
Dynamic range: subtlety and silence in video game sound
An introduction to granular synthesis in video games
Audio and Audience
Chip music: low-tech data music sharing
Left in the dark: playing computer games with the sound turned off
Music theory in music games
Selected annotated bibliography
Bibliography
Index
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