From Pac-Man to Pop Music [[electronic resource] ] : Interactive Audio in Games and New Media
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| Autore: |
Collins Karen
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| Titolo: |
From Pac-Man to Pop Music [[electronic resource] ] : Interactive Audio in Games and New Media
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| Pubblicazione: | Farnham, : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 006.5 |
| 781.5/4 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Popular music -- History and criticism |
| Video game music -- History and criticism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; List of figures; About the contributors; General Editor's Preface; Preface; Introduction; PART 1 Industries and synergies; 1 The new MTV? Electronic Arts and 'playing' music; 2 Marketing music through computer games: the case of Poets of the Fall and Max Payne 2; PART 2 Ringtones and mobile phones; 3 Could ringtones be more annoying?; 4 Indeterminate adaptive digital audio for games on mobiles; PART 3 Instruments and interactions; 5 Theoretical approaches to composing dynamic music for video games; 6 Realizing groundbreaking adaptive music |
| 7 The composition-instrument: emergence, improvisation and interaction in games and new mediaPART 4 Techniques and technologies; 8 Dynamic range: subtlety and silence in video game sound; 9 An introduction to granular synthesis in video games; PART 5 Audio and audience; 10 Chip music: low-tech data music sharing; 11 Left in the dark: playing computer games with the sound turned off; 12 Music theory in music games; Selected Annotated Bibliography; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 mu |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From Pac-Man to Pop Music |
| ISBN: | 1-351-21772-0 |
| 1-282-94839-3 | |
| 9786612948398 | |
| 1-4094-2903-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459443103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series