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From Pac-Man to Pop Music : Interactive Audio in Games and New Media.

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Collins, Karen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2011.
Colección:Ashgate popular and folk music series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.