Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games

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Listening to and Performing Ludic Soundscapes

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Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

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Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games brings together a range of perspectives that explore how music and sound in video games interact with virtual and real environments, often in innovative and unexpected ways. Drawing on a range of game case studies and disciplinary perspectives, the contributors consider the sonic environment in games as its own storytelling medium. Highlighting how dynamic video game soundscapes respond to players’ movements, engage them in collaborative composition, and actively contribute to worldbuilding, the chapters discuss topics including genre conventions around soundscape design, how sonic environments shape players’ perceptions, how game sound and music model ecological processes and nonhuman relationships, and issues of cultural and geographic representation. Together, the essays in this volume bring game music and sound into the environmental humanities and transform our understanding of sonic environments as an essential part of storytelling in interactive media. Engaging a wide variety of game genres and communities of play, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of music, media studies, critical game studies, popular culture, and sound studies.

Author Biography:

Kate Galloway is Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research addresses how and why contemporary artists remix and recycle sounds, music, and texts encoded with environmental knowledge and the creative and social phenomena of internet music communities and practices of listening to the internet. With Paula Harper and Christa Bentley, she co-edited the collection Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans. Elizabeth Hambleton, Ph.D., is an instructor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the Interactive Media and Game Development program where she teaches audio for video games. Her research in video games focuses on virtual world soundscapes and sound design.

Release date NZ

October 22nd, 2024

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Tertiary Education (US: College)

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Edited by Elizabeth Hambleton
Edited by Kate Galloway

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2 Tables, black and white; 13 Line drawings, black and white; 44 Halftones, black and white; 57 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

286

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Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

ISBN-13

9781032230320

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38812025

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