Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Collins, Karen, 1973-

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Description

xii, 185 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In Playing with Sound, Karen Collins examines video game sound from the player's perspective. She explores the many ways that players interact with a game's sonic aspects, ambient sound, dialogue, and interface sounds -- both within and outside of the game. She investigates the ways that meaning is found, embodied, created, evoked, hacked, remixed, negotiated, and renegotiated by players in the space of interactive sound in games. Drawing on disciplines that range from film studies and philosophy to psychology and computer science, Collins develops a theory of interactive sound experience that distinguishes between interacting with sound and simply listening without interacting. Her conceptual approach combines practice theory (which focuses on productive and consumptive practices around media) and embodied cognition (which holds that our understanding of the world is in part shaped by our physical interaction with it). Collins investigates the multimodal experience of sound, image, and touch in games; the role of interactive sound in creating an emotional experience through immersion and identification with the game character; the ways in which sound acts as a mediator for a variety of performative activities; and embodied interactions with sound beyond the game, including machinima, chip-tunes, circuit bending, and other practices that use elements from games in sonic performances."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Interactive multimedia
• Video games

Genre/Form

• Interactive multimedia.
• Video games.

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

Preface : Game sound gets heard -- Introduction : How is interacting with sound different from listening to sound? ; The sound of music: musical sound ; Interacting with and listening to ; Game players: an interactive audience ; Game players: an embodied cognition approach to audience -- Interacting with sound: a theory of action, image, and sound : Schizophonia: disembodied sound? ; Synchresis: integrating sound and image ; Kinesonic synchresis: the event-driven nature of interactive sound -- Kinesonic congruence and the player -- Being in the game: a sonic approach : Extension and incorporation ; Self-produced sound ; Sonic game space: point of audience in games ; Spatial sonic embodiment in the game -- Sound at the borders: enacting game sound : Posing and playing ; Voice and role-play in games ; Alternative-reality games ; New sonic boundaries: identification, performance, and cocreativity -- Embodying game sound in performance: the real and the virtual : Performing music in games ; Performing to music in games ; Performing game music ; Creating music from the game ; Interacting with the game as instrument -- The second life of game sound: playing with the game : Sonic modification and player generated content ; Modding game sound ; Art mods ; Player-generated content: a fourth wall of sound -- Conclusions : Future directions in interactive sound studies.

Call Number

*LE 17-4182

ISBN

• 9780262018678
• 0262018675

LCCN

2012025349

OCLC

808107365

Author

Collins, Karen, 1973-

Title

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

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

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

Connect to:

http://mitpress-ebooks.mit.edu/product/playing-sound

Other Form:

Electronic resource 9780262312288

Research Call Number

*LE 17-4182