£19.99
Publication Date:
01 Jan 2011
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Imprint:
Ashgate Publishing
For delivery:
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Description
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 sound programmers to introduce the topic from a variety of angles in order to provide a supplementary text for music and multimedia courses. 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.
Contents
Contents: Preface; Introduction, Karen Collins; Part 1 Industries and Synergies: The new MTV? Electronic arts and 'playing' music, Holly Tessler; Marketing music through computer games: the case of Poets of the Fall and Max Payne 2, Antti-Ville KArjA... Part 2 Ringtones and Mobile Phones: Could ringtones be more annoying?, Peter Drescher; Indeterminate adaptive digital audio for games on mobiles, Agnes Guerraz and Jacques Lemordant. Part 3 Instruments and Interactions: Theoretical approaches to composing dynamic music for video games, Jesper Kaae; Realising groundbreaking adaptive music, Tim van Geelen; The composition-instrument: emergence, improvisation, and interaction in games and new media, Norbert Herber. Part 4 Techniques and Technologies: Dynamic range: subtlety and silence in video game sound, Rob Bridgett; An introduction to granular synthesis in video games, Leonard J. Paul. Part 5 Audio and Audience: Chip music: low-tech data music sharing, Anders Carlsson; Left in the dark: playing computer games with the sound turned off, Kristine JA,rgensen; Music theory in music games, Peter Schultz; Selected annotated bibliography, Erica Kudisch; Bibliography; Index.
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