The School of Music, University of Liverpool, is hosting its first conference on all aspects of music and sound for screen media.
Topics will include, but will not be limited to, music and sound for fiction film, documentary, television, music video, video games and interactive media.
The conference is funded in part by a generous grant from The Film Music Foundation (Hollywood)
Keynote speaker: Professor John Richardson, University of Turku
Panel Convenor: Professor Anahid Kassabian, University of Liverpool
If you have any queries, please contact Holly Rogers at holly.rogers@liverpool.ac.uk. For further information, click here.
We are very excited to announce that the second keynote address at Ludo 2014 will be given by William Cheng, of Harvard University. Will’s most familiar ludomusicological work to-date is his ethnography, “Role-Playing toward a Virtual Musical Democracy in The Lord of the Rings Online,” Ethnomusicology 56:1 (2012), 31-62. His first book, Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination, is expected from Oxford University Press just weeks before the conference date.
We are excited to announce that we are now accepting proposals for 20-minute research papers for Ludo 2014. The conference will be from April 10th – 12th 2014 at the University of Chichester, UK. Please circulate our Call For Papers and help spread the word!
Further details can be found the Ludo 2014 pages at http://www.ludomusicology.org/ludo-2014/
April 10th – 12th 2014 University of Chichester, UK
We are very excited to announce that the Ludo 2014 international conference on videogame music will take place at the University of Chichester (UK) from Thursday 10th to Saturday 12th April 2014.
Our Call for Papers can be found here, and a PDF poster for distribution can be found here. Please help circulate and spread the word! The programme can be found here. Tweet about Ludo 2014 using the #ludo14 hashtag and follow the feed on Twitter!
This is our third annual conference on video game sound and music, and will feature:
- Keynote addresses by:
- Kevin J. Donnelly (Southampton University), author of The Spectre of Sound: Music in Film and Television (BFI Publishing, 2005)
- William Cheng (Harvard University), author of Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (OUP, forthcoming)
- Industry sessions with game audio professionals including:
- Richard Jacques, composer of James Bond 007: Blood Stone (Activision), Mass Effect (BioWare), Alice in Wonderland (Disney), Headhunter (Amuze/Sega) and Starship Troopers (Empire/Sony Pictures)
- James Hannigan, composer of games from the Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Command & Conquer, Wing Commander, Warhammer and Dead Space franchises
- Winifred Phillips, composer of Assassin’s Creed Liberation (Ubisoft), LittleBigPlanet 2 (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe), God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment), author of A Composer’s Guide to Game Music from The MIT Press
- Intellect-sponsored drinks reception
- Proceedings special issue of The Soundtrack with selected papers from the conference
- Conference Dinner at Spanish tapas restaurant, El Castizo.
The conference themes this year are:
- Canons and curating game music
- Simulation, immersion and “the real” in sound and audio
- Game audio outside games
Registration is now closed.
The School of Music, University of Liverpool, is hosting its first conference on all aspects of music and sound for screen media.
