Symposium & Congres
Workshop ‘Videogame Music: Play, Fans, Space’
On 13 September a workshop will be held on the impact and popularity of videogame music. With internationally renowned speakers from the fields of game studies and game music research, game designers and students, this one-day symposium at Utrecht University seeks to outline an agenda for videogame music research. The workshop is organised within the Changing Literacies research line of Utrecht University’s research focus area Cultures & Identities.
Music is vital to videogaming. A game soundtrack draws players into the game space's atmosphere with heroic melodies, exotic drums or spooky white noise; it enables them to identify characters and situations through leitmotifs; it warns them for imminent danger and helps them navigate through fights with 3D sound clues. Videogame music is also very popular outside the direct gaming context. Game soundtracks are commercially successful and are performed by full orchestras at game music concerts. Fannish engagement with videogame music has led to worldwide communities creating game music remixes, mash-ups and parodies.
The symposium investigates music's contribution to three important domains of videogaming: Play, Fans, and Space. The symposium will investigate questions such as:
- How does music in games impact on the way we engage with the story world of a game?
- Which forms of musical literacy does videogame music endorse?
- In which ways does musical experience enhance gaming immersion?
- In addition, a game music workshop will enable researchers, students, designers and gamers to join forces in the development and study of videogame music.
Keynote speakers
‘Videogame Music: Play, Fans, Space’ contributes to Utrecht’s focus area Cultures & Identities and collaborates closely with the DiGRA games conference ‘Think Design Play’ taking place in Utrecht 14-17 september.
| Startdatum en tijd: |
13/9/2011 09:00 |
| Einddatum en tijd: |
13/9/2011 17:00 |
| Locatie: |
Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, Utrecht |