We’re excited to announce that registration for Ludo2016 is now open! Please find event details and the registration form here. Do email us (ludomusicology@gmail.org) if you have any questions or problems registering.
Further programme details will follow in due course. Please also continue to send in your Ludo Prize nominations – the deadline for these is 31st March 2016.
Happy New Year Ludomusicologists! We’re already one week into 2016 and that means there are three weeks until the submission deadline for Ludo2016! We’ve had some great proposals so far, and are looking forward to seeing more arrive in our inbox in the coming weeks.
Don’t forget, no matter your background or experience, we’re keen to hear from you! So if you’ve got an idea for a presentation, especially on topics related to vg audio history, then make sure you get it to us on or before January 31st!
Ludo2016 is our fifth anniversary conference, and we want it to be the biggest and best international gathering to date! We have some exciting plans for the programme which should appeal to both students and early career practitioners, so look out for further announcements in the coming weeks!
We are thrilled to announce that the second keynote for Ludo 2016 will be none other than Andrew Barnabas (Bob and Barn), composer of Brink (2011) and MediEvil (1998). With long-time collaborator Paul “Bob” Arnold, the famous duo have over forty years of collective experience composing film scores, ad jingles, scores for TV shows, and interactive tracks for games.
“From winning awards for the Commodore Amiga in 1991, plaudits for our orchestral fantasy scores for the MediEvil series of Playstation games in the late 90s, BAFTA nominations for our work on Primal for the Playstation 2 in 2003, we found ourselves being asked to score feature films and TV shows, our score for Lionsgate feature Green Street 3 winning best Action Score of 2013 and most recently our score to British Sci-Fi series Chronicles of Syntax winning ‘Outstanding music for Sci-Fi/Fantasy’ at the Los Angeles Webfest 2014.”
Please check out and circulate our revised Call for Papers Poster!
We are delighted to announce our Call for Papers for Ludo 2016! Please help circulate our poster online, and around your institutions!
April 8th–10th, University of Southampton
Fifth Anniversary Conference on
Video Game Music and Sound
Call for Papers
The organizers of Ludo2016 are accepting proposals for research presentations at the fifth annual Easter conference. While we welcome all proposals, we are particularly interested in papers that support the theme of ‘Video Game Audio and History’. Possible topics on this theme include:
Presentations should last twenty minutes, to be followed by questions. Please submit your paper proposal (c.200 words) by email to ludomusicology@gmail.com by January 31st 2016.
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.
Proposals for papers in alternative formats, such as performances or demonstrations, should be discussed with the conference organizers before the abstract is submitted.
The conference will feature a keynote address by Neil Lerner (Davidson College), co-editor of Music in Video Games: Studying Play (Routledge, 2014), with further keynote speakers and guests to be announced shortly.
Hosted by Kevin Donnelly, the Music Department and the Film Department at the University of Southampton.
Organized by Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney.