Ludo2016 Programme

The preliminary programme for Ludo2016 is as follows.

Day 1: 8^th April 2016

9:30 – 10:00	Registration, Coffee & Welcome
10:00 – 11:30	Session 1 – Japan 1. Melanie Fritsch: 'Big in Japan: digging in the history of Japanese game music culture' Abstract. 2. Georgina Brown: 'You have earned a trophy: the sound of Studio Ghibli’s first JRPG' Abstract. 3. Costantino Oliva: 'Toshio Iwai: digital games as musical realizations' Abstract.
11:30 – 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00	Keynote 1 (Neil Lerner)
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Session 2 – Chips 4. James Newman: 'Ear candy: The SID chip and the birth of chiptunes' Abstract. 5. George Reid: '‘A wild Dalek appeared!’ 8-bit sonic cartography: fannish re-contextualisations of sci-fi media soundtracks through a chiptune videogame aesthetic.' Abstract. 6. Michael Austin: 'Music at the intersection of hip hop and video game cultures' Abstract.
15:30 – 16:00	Tea & Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30	Session 3 – Horror 7. Hillegonda Rietveld & Marco Carbone: ‘'When the lights went off - VR strategies towards sonic affect in horror games'' Abstract. 8. Annabelle Richmond: 'Sonic subtlety in horror games' Abstract. 9. Beth Carroll: 'Courting and creating sonic disgust in Alien: Isolation' Abstract.
17:30 – 18:30	Drinks Reception
19:30	Conference Dinner at Ghandi’s

Day 2, 9^th April 2016

9:30 – 11:00	Session 4 – Chips and Intertextuality 10. Melanie Gómez Hernández: 'First generation sound and music of arcade video games' Abstract. 11. Peter Goosey: 'The immersive influence of Journey's soundtrack: a semiotic insight' Abstract. 12. Blake Troise: 'Compositional methods and challenges presented by the Nintendo Entertainment System' Abstract.
11:00 – 11:30	Tea & Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30	Keynote 2 (Andrew Barnabas)
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 16:00	Session 5 – Representation 13. James Tate & Nick Collins: 'Music information retrieval for ludomusicology' Abstract. 14. Keith Hennigan: 'From Doolin to Tokyo: representations of Irish music in video games' Abstract. 15. Hyeonjin Park: 'Melodies of a barren wasteland: the musical portrayal of the desert’ Abstract. 16. Donal Fullam: 'The Centre of Everything: Game Sound and the Avant-Garde’ Abstract.
16:00 – 16:30	Tea & Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30	Session 6 – Composers’ Roundtable
17:30	Ludo Prize
19:30	Evening Celebration – Ludomusicology Pub Quiz

Day 3, 10^th April 2016

9:30 – 11:00	Session 7 – Interaction 17. Elise Plans: 'Music as function: biofeedback in games for health' Abstract. 18. Sam Murray: 'Harnessing interaction: video game audio configuration as compositional tool' Abstract. 19. Andra Ivanescu: 'Musical Device: Time, Space and Sound in Simogo’s Device 6' Abstract.
11:00 – 11:30	Tea & Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00	Session 8 – Approaches to Implementation 20. Morgan Hale: 'Filled with determination: an exploration of the music of Undertale' Abstract. 21. Tim Harbour: 'Compositional perspectives on the music in indie games: the case of Fez’ Abstract. 22. Tim Summers: 'The Gamified Album: Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds' Abstract.
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Session 9 – Immersion 23. Andrew Fisher: 'Audible game play: narrative in video game audio and its impact on immersion' Abstract. 24. Michiel Kamp: 'Playing to what? Enabling similarity in interactive audiovisual contexts' Abstract. 25. Barnabas Gregory Smith: 'The historical development of music in the Grand Theft Auto series and its immersive role and application in Grand Theft Auto V’ Abstract.
15:30 – 16:00	Tea & Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30	Session 10 – Beyond Games 26. Adam Harper: '‘Synaesthetic alien vistas': electronica at the intersection of game music and music games' Abstract. 27. Mark Perry: '8-Bit in a 32-bit world: a study of video game music in EDM' Abstract. 28. Steven Baysted: 'Ludum extra ludum' Abstract.