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Journal of Sound and Music in Games (2024) 5 (4): 106–108.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of the intricacies of Williams’s Star Wars film scores. Lehman’s research provides an ideal foundation for the ludomusicological inquisition of the hundred plus Star Wars game scores. The interactive nature of gaming mandates that the scores take player input into consideration leading to many unique methods...
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Journal of Sound and Music in Games (2024) 5 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2024
... and their manifestations in games. By examining this, the study not only suggests their influence on cultural and intellectual developments, but also underscores the significance of nondigital games in constructing and disseminating concepts about music as well as for a history of ludomusicology. Vice versa, it suggests...
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Journal of Sound and Music in Games (2024) 5 (1): 24–38.
Published: 01 January 2024
... is never as evident as when they sing. Both games end with songs performed by these antagonists, after they have technically been defeated. This paper draws on feminist literary and film theory, as well as musicology and ludomusicology, to deliver both a comparative analysis of the two songs, and a broader...
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Journal of Sound and Music in Games (2023) 4 (2): 24–45.
Published: 01 April 2023
... as in Arcana (HAL Laboratory, 1992) and Super Castlevania IV (Konami, 1994). © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 heavy metal rock ludomusicology retro ethnomusicology music theory popular music Heavy metal music—hereon referred to simply as “metal”—is a vague...
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Journal of Sound and Music in Games (2022) 3 (2-3): 150–153.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Julianne Grasso Review of The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music , Edited by Melanie Fritsch and Tim Summers ( Cambridge University Press , 2021 , 372 pp, $29.99 ). © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 education ludomusicology review introduction...
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Journal of Sound and Music in Games (2022) 3 (2-3): 28–58.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Costantino Oliva; Ari Poutiainen In this article we present ludomusicological research associated with the development of the video game Otogarden . Players of Otogarden are able to repeat short musical phrases through the use of a loop mechanic, juxtaposing sounds extemporaneously. By using...
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Journal of Sound and Music in Games (2022) 3 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 January 2022
... of competitive game elements. The relationship between play, games, and musical activity is then examined with reference to theoretical perspectives from ludomusicology and game studies, revealing a series of mechanical and aesthetic design tensions emerging between competitive gameplay and music creation. Two...
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Journal of Sound and Music in Games (2021) 2 (4): 13–35.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Juan Pablo Fernández-Cortés; Karen M. Cook In the past two decades, the study of video game music has come into its own and gained acceptance in the academic community. This subdiscipline, now commonly referred as ludomusicology , is still attempting basic questions concerning how it can...
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Journal of Sound and Music in Games (2020) 1 (4): 76–82.
Published: 29 September 2020
.... 5. Jesper Juul, “Introduction to Game Time,” in First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game , ed. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), 131–142. 6. Tim Summers, “Analysing Video Game Music: Sources, Methods and a Case Study,” in Ludomusicology...
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Journal of Sound and Music in Games (2020) 1 (3): 68–70.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Marcus Erbe Melanie Fritsch Performing Bytes ludomusicology theatre studies performativity musicking embodiment gameplay music games performances of game music Rockets and bombs blasting at my feet Of course I can keep a beat I'm your funky dancing computer game...
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Journal of Sound and Music in Games (2020) 1 (2): 68–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., all the better. Thus a formula for prioritizing recognizable and easily digestible musical styles was agreed upon. ludomusicology auto-ethnography game studies diegetic music If, in an alternate 1960s, Germany had mastered advanced robotics, could they have also mastered digital audio...
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Journal of Sound and Music in Games (2020) 1 (1): 103–112.
Published: 01 January 2020
... and ludomusicology can lead to a New Drastic Musicology: an intellectual engagement with video game music that is just as rooted in immediacy, interactivity, and playfulness as the object with which it concerns itself. The New Drastic, I shall argue, can engender significant critical, epistemological, thematic...