From Pac-Man to pop music : interactive audio in games and new media / / edited by Karen Collins

• Pubblicazione: Aldershot, Hampshidre, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 781.5/4
• Soggetto topico: Video game music - History and criticism; Popular music - History and criticism
• Altri autori: CollinsKaren <1973->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-202) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- 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 media -- PART 4 Techniques and technologie -- 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: From Pac-Man to pop music
• ISBN: 1-351-21772-0; 1282948393; 9786612948398; 9781351217736; 1409429032
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807701703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ashgate popular and folk music series.