We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker for Ludo2026 Dr. Poppy Wilde. She is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Birmingham City University, UK and the author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities (Routledge, 2023). She has published extensively on critical posthumanism and game studies. Her research explores how posthuman subjectivities are enabled and embodied in a variety of contexts, particularly through gaming, zombie studies, and affective and autoethnographic methodologies.
6– 8 August, Edge Hill University Conference on Game Music and Sound
The organizers of Ludo2026 are accepting proposals for research presentations.
We welcome proposals on all aspects of sound and music in the context of games.
This year, we are particularly interested in papers that support the 15th anniversary conference theme of ‘Pushing limits and crossing borders’. Papers on this topic may include:
Ludomusicology at the border of digital and non-digital games
Pioneers in game music
Genre hybridity in game composition
Exploring the relationship between academia and industry
Pushing limits in ludomusicology by crossing disciplinary boundaries
Technological innovation in game audio
Game music across borders as a transcultural phenomenon
Marginalised voices and intersectional identities
Musical play as transgression
Presentations should last twenty minutes and will be followed by questions. Please submit your paper proposal (c.250 words) with a short provisional list of literature, and details of any technical requirements, by email to ludomusicology@gmail.com by February 20th, 2026. We aim to communicate the programme decisions by March 15th, 2026. If you require more information, please email the organizers.
We encourage practitionersand composers to submit proposals for showcasing practice as research. The conference will be held in person, but with remote access options available.
Further conference information will be posted on the conference page here.
Organized by Michael Austin, Melanie Fritsch, Andra Ivănescu, Michiel Kamp & Tim Summers.
