Playing with sound : a theory of interacting with sound and music in video games / Karen Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Karen, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interactive multimedia.

Video games.

Genre:

Video games.

Physical Description:

xii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

Contents:

How Is Interacting with Sound Different from Listening to Sound? 2

The Sound of Music: Musical Sound 3

Interacting with and Listening To 4

Game Players: An Interactive Audience 13

Game Players: An Embodied Cognition Approach to Audience 15

1 Interacting with Sound: A Theory of Action, Image, and Sound 19

Schizophonia: Disembodied Sound? 23

Synchresis: Integrating Sound and Image 26

Kinesonic Synchresis: The Event-Driven Nature of Interactive Sound 32

Kinesonic Congruence and the Player 35

2 Being in the Game: A Sonic Approach 39

Extension and Incorporation 41

Self-Produced Sound 43

Sonic Game Space: Point of Audition in Games 44

Spatial Sonic Embodiment in the Game 56

3 Sound at the Borders: Enacting Game Sound 59

Posing and Playing 60

Voice and Role-Play in Games 68

Alternate-Reality Games 82

New Sonic Boundaries: Identification, Performance, and Cocreativity 87

4 Embodying Game Sound in Performance: The Real and the Virtual 89

Performing Music in Games 92

Performing to Music in Games 96

Performing Game Musk 105

Creating Music from the Game 111

Interacting with the Game as Instrument 119

5 The Second Life of Game Sound: Playing with the Game 121

Sonic Modification and Player-Generated Content 123

Modeling Game Sound 126

Art Mods 134

Player-Generated Content: A Fourth Wall of Sound 138.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-178) and index.

ISBN:

0262018675

9780262018678

OCLC:

808107365

Publisher Number:

99953525387