We are pleased to announce that we have implemented two new features to our website, the ability for Facebook users to comment on our blog posts, and a special form for submitting guest contributions (http://www.ludomusicology.org/contribute/). To comment on our posts, click on the post title to view the post in full; comments will be available at the bottom of the page. Comments will be moderated and not all guest contributions will necessarily be published, but we welcome any ludomusicologically-pertinent submissions.
We are pleased to announce that our first guest contributor will be Kyle Roderick (Texas Christian University), the Editor-in-chief at Musicology Memes.
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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.
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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/
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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.
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