Issue 2
Playing Music - Video Games and Music
July 2011
ISSN 2191-253X
Editorial 2011/2: Playing Music - Video Games and Music
by Melanie Fritsch
November 2010. We are in a cinema. The lights have been turned off, and, as [...]
Playing the Tune: Video Game Music, Gamers, and Genre
by Tim Summers
In this article I propose an approach to video game music that prioritizes the player's interaction [...]
Thematic Unity Across a Video Game Series
by Jason Brame
Koji Kondo's music is among the most recognized video game music ever written. As the composer both for Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo, 1985) and The Legend of Zelda [...]
Chaos in the Cosmos: The Play of Contradictions in the Music of Katamari Damacy
by Steven B. Reale
At first glance, Katamari Damacy (Namco, 2004) is a simple and cheerful video game. The player's task is to roll a sticky ball (katamari) around the game space [...]
Malte Friedrich, Urbane Klänge. Popmusik und Imagination der Stadt , Bielefeld: Transcript 2010
by Dominic Larue
Fragen der Urbanität rücken seit einigen Jahren vermehrt ins Zentrum des Interesses der Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften und so auch der [...]