Ludo2017, the Sixth Easter Conference on Video Game Music and Sound, will take place April 20^th– 22^nd at Bath Spa University, UK.

The draft Conference Booklet is now available.

Please share our Call for Papers poster online and around your institutions.

The sixth annual Easter conference is focused on the theme of ‘Performance’, understood in the broadest sense. The conference will feature keynote addresses by:

Kenneth McAlpine (Abertay University), author of Bits and Pieces: A History of Chiptunes (OUP, 2017),
Roger Moseley (Cornell University), author of the recently published Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo (UC Press, 2017), and
Rob Hubbard, best known for his groundbreaking compositions for the Commodore 64 (Commando, International Karate, Monty on the Run, Skate or Die).

The programme also includes a concert of new compositions inspired by, and using, game audio technology, curated by Professor James Saunders, organizer of the Open Scores Lab.

Registration

Please register on the Bath Spa website, here.

Accommodation

You can book University accommodation when completing your registration for the conference. Alternatively, you may book accommodation separately. Unfortunately, there isn’t central campus accommodation for the night of the 19th (with apologies), but other options are available below, including the Green Park House accommodation owned by the uni http://www.greenparkhouse.co.uk/our-accommodation/.

We can recommend the following options:

Aquae Sulis Guest House (4*)
http://www.aquaesulishotel.co.uk
Standard Single Room with Private Bathroom from 59 GBP/night
Marishas Guest House (3*)
http://marishasinbath.com/
Standard Single Room with Private Bathroom from 58 GBP/night
Holiday Inn Express Bath (3*)
http://www.expressbath.co.uk
Rates from 103 GBP/night; Bus stop St. James Cemetery nearby
YMCA Hostel
http://www.bathymca.co.uk/what-we-do/accommodation/
Dorm Beds start from 21 GBP/night, Single Room from 32 GBP

Location & Travel

The conference will take place at Bath Spa’s Newton Park Campus. Bath Spa University have more detailed directions on their website. The nearest international airport is Bristol (40 mins by car), but and Heathrow (1hr 50mins) is not far. Bath Spa Railway Station can be reached by the U5 bus from campus, where you can get regular direct trains to London Paddington (1hr 30mins). The U5 leaves every 10 minutes during daytime on weekdays, every 60 minutes in the evening, and every 30 minutes on weekends. See the bus company website for more details and a detailed map of public transport in and around Bath.

Limited parking is available at the Newton Park campus. More information can be found here.

If you have any queries regarding registration, please contact us at ludomusicology@gmail.com.

Preliminary Programme

This draft programme is subject to change.

Day 1: 20^th April 2017

9:00 – 09:30	Registration, Coffee & Welcome
09:30 – 11:35	Session 1 – Algorithms and Voices 1. Blake Troise: 'Beeper Music:The Idiosyncratic Compositional Rhetoric of 1-Bit Music' Abstract. 2. Donal Fullam: 'Songs of the Algorithmic Society: Game Music as Cultural Expression' Abstract. 3. Stephen Tatlow: 'Diegesis and the Player Voice: Communication in Fantasy Reality' Abstract. 4. Kevin Burke: 'Terpsichorean Vox: Hitoshi Sakimoto’s Choral Synthesis in the 16-bit Era' Abstract.
11:35 – 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00	Keynote 1 (Kenneth McAlpine)
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:50	Session 2 – Compositions with Game Technology 5. James Saunders: 'Rules and decision-making in game compositions' Abstract. 6. Ben Jameson: 'Construction in Metal: Investigating authenticity in musical performance using video game peripherals' Abstract. 7. Ricardo Climent: 'Composing Interactive Music with physics, graphics and gameaudio engines' Abstract.
15:50 – 16:20	Tea & Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:50	Session 3 – Realities and Spaces 8. Ciarán Jai Cosway: 'The Aesthetics of Music in a Performed Narrative'' Abstract. 9. Beth Carroll: 'Raw Data: Interactive Musical Interplay and Sound Space' Abstract. 10. Elizabeth Hambleton: 'Levels of Reality and Artifice in The Talos Principle' Abstract.
18:00 – 18:30	Drinks Reception
19:30	Conference Dinner

Day 2, 21st April 2017

9:30 – 11:35	Session 4 – Histories 11. James Tate: 'High Scores: Canonisation within Ludomusicology' Abstract. 12. Barnabas Smith: 'Bringing London Murders to the Australian Stage: An Evolution of Game Music Collaboration and Performance' Abstract. 13. James Cook: 'Sonic Medievalism and Cultural Identity in Fantasy Videogame' Abstract. 14. Helen Diggle: '“Some Guy from Back in the Day”: Reimagining Elvis Presley in Fallout: New Vegas' Abstract.
11:35 – 12:00	Tea & Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00	Keynote 2 (Rob Hubbard)
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:50	Session 5 – Play Beyond the Game 15. Ben Oliver et al.: 'Roundtable/Performance' Abstract. 16. Michael Austin: 'The History (and Future) of Automatic Mario Music Videos' Abstract. 17. Edward Spencer: 'When play becomes political: an acoustemology of major league gaming montage parodies (MLGMPs)’ Abstract.
16:00 – 16:30	Tea & Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:50	Session 6 – Performance 18. Melanie Fritsch: 'Game-Music-Performance: Ludomusicology meets Performance Studies' Abstract. 19. Ivan Mouraviev: 'Playing with Performance' Abstract. 20. Michiel Kamp: 'Ludo-musical Kuleshov? Experimenting with rhythm game mechanics in Asteroids' Abstract.
18:30	Evening Celebration – Concert

Day 3, 22nd April 2017

9:30 – 11:35	Session 7 – In Concert 21. Joana Freitas: '“It’s storytelling through music”: on video game concerts and the promise of an “immersive” and collaborative experience' Abstract. 22. Elizabeth Hunt: 'Video Games Live and the Gamification of the Symphony Orchestra' Abstract. 23. James S. Tate: 'The Allure of the 'JRPG Sound' within Video Game Concerts' Abstract. 24. Ben Hopgood: 'Evaluating Video Game Music in the Concert Hall: A Study of the Music from Final Fantasy VII' Abstract.
11:35 – 12:00	Tea & Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00	Keynote 3 (Roger Moseley)
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Session 8 – Sonic Worlds 25. Richard Stevens, Dave Raybould & Nikos Stavropoulos: 'It's in the game: The affordances of video game technologies for spatial music' Abstract. 26. Kevin Donnelly: 'Walking and Listening: Psychogeography and Environmental Music in The Old City: Leviathan (2015)' Abstract. 27. George Marshall: 'Audio fidelity and diegesis in the music of Forza Horizon 3' Abstract.
15:30 – 16:00	Tea & Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30	Session 9 – Teaching and Learning 28. Richard Evans: 'Flow Chart Analysis of the Dynamic Music System used in Tomb Raider' Abstract. 29. Meghan Naxer: 'Video Game Pedagogy: Addressing Motivation in Undergraduate Music Courses' Abstract. 30. Jan Torge Claussen: 'Playing guitar while playing video games: An experiment with students learning to play the guitar by playing Rocksmith' Abstract.

www.ludomusicology.org | #ludo2017
Hosted by Professor James Newman, Bath Spa University.
Organized by Melanie Fritsch, Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney.

We’re delighted to announce that Ludo2017, the Sixth Easter Conference on Video Game Music and Sound, will take place April 20^th– 22^nd at Bath Spa University, UK.

Please share our Call for Papers poster online and around your institutions.

The organizers of Ludo2017 are accepting proposals for research presentations at the sixth annual Easter conference. While we welcome all proposals on sound and music in games, we are particularly interested in papers that support the theme of ‘Performance’, understood in the broadest sense. Possible topics on this theme include:

Chips and sonic outputs,
Playing with, and within, technological audio constructs,
Sound and ludic interaction,
Histories of developing techniques and tools,
Game audio aesthetics and approaches,
Composition with game technologies (chips, engines, etc.).

Presentations should last twenty minutes, to be followed by questions. Please submit your paper proposal (c.250 words) by email to ludomusicology@gmail.com by January 31^st 2017.

Composers and practitioners may also submit a proposal to present work at the conference.

We also welcome session proposals from organizers representing two to four individuals; the organizer should submit an introduction to the theme and c.200 word proposals for each paper.

The conference will feature a keynote address by Kenneth McAlpine (Abertay University), author of Bits and Pieces: A History of Chiptunes (OUP, 2017), with further keynote speakers and guests to be announced shortly.

www.ludomusicology.org | #ludo2017
Hosted by Professor James Newman, Bath Spa University.
Organized by Melanie Fritsch, Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney.

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