From Pac-man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754662004 ISBN 13: 9780754662006

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008

Synopsis

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 multimedia, 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 contributors cover practical and theoretical approaches, including historical perspectives, emerging theories, socio-cultural approaches to fandom, 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.

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About the Author

Karen Collins is based in the Canadian Centre of Arts and Technology at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754662004
• ISBN 13: 9780754662006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Collins Karen