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About me and research

Dr Michiel Kamp is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Utrecht University, where he teaches on music and media. He previously taught and completed his AHRC-funded PhD dissertation at the University of Cambridge. His research takes a phenomenological approach to music in video games, and attempts to categorize and characterize the different ways in which players can hear and listen to game soundtracks. Michiel received his BA and MA degrees from Utrecht University. In addition to a chapter in Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music, he has recently contributed to a special issue of Philosophy & Technology on video game music and ecological psychology.

Academic output
Articles:
2013, ‘Musical Ecologies in Video Games’, Philosophy & Technology June 2013.

Major Conference Papers:
2013, ‘The Civilization IV history of Western music’, Music and the Moving Image 2013, New York University

2013, ‘Background music in video games: a phenomenological approach’, Ludomusicology 2013 Conference, 12th – 13th April 2013, Liverpool University

2012, ‘Is background music music? A phenomenological approach’ Challenging Musical Ontologies: An RMA Study Day, University of Nottingham

2012, ‘Death and diegesis: music structuring gameplay in three platform games’, RMA Study Day Ludomusicology: Approaches and Aesthetics, 16th April 2012, Oxford University

2012, ‘Ecology, diegesis and music in video games’, RMA Research Students’ Conference 2012, University of Hull

2011, ‘Ludic music in video games’, Music and the Moving Image 2011, New York University

About me and research

Dr Tim Summers is Teaching Fellow in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has taught music at Bristol and Oxford Universities. He was Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He received a first-class BA degree in music from Oxford University, before completing an MPhil by research at Bristol University in moving-image music. He was awarded the Bristol University Centenary Scholarship for the duration of his PhD in video game music. Tim has also worked to design research components for MA and MFA courses in media music offered by ThinkSpace Education, accredited by Chichester University. As well as contributing to several essay collections, he has written for the Journal of the Royal Musical Association on music in comics, for Music, Sound, and the Moving Image on music in multimedia franchises, The Journal of Film Music on narratology, and for The Soundtrack and Act on video game music. Tim’s monograph, Understanding Video Game Music will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Tim serves on the editorial board of The Soundtrack and is currently expanding his research to consider music in transmedial contexts.

Academic output
Articles:
Forth. ‘‘Sparks of Meaning’: Comics, Music and Alan Moore’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association 140/1 (2015).

Forth. ‘The Aesthetics of Video Game Music: Epic Texturing in the First-Person Shooter’, The Soundtrack 5/1 (2013).

2013 ‘Star Trek and the Musical Depiction of the Alien Other’, Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 7/1 (Summer 2013), 19–52.

2011 ‘Playing the Tune: Video Game Music, Gamers and Genre’, ACT Zeitschrift für Musik & Performance 1/2, 25pp.

Chapters in Edited Collections:
Forth. ‘From Parsifal to the PlayStation: Wagner and Video Game Music’, in Kevin Donnelly, Neil Lerner and William Gibbons (eds), Video Game Music (New York and London: Routledge)
Forth. ‘Music in Racing Video Games’, in Chris Hart (ed.), Automobiles and Popular Music Culture

2013 ‘C’era Una Volta Il West : An Opera to do with Death?’, in Guido Heldt, Tarek Krohn, Peter Moormann and Willem Strank (eds), Ennio Morricone [FilmMusik Vol. 1] (Munich: edition text + kritik)

Major Conference Papers:
2013, ‘Wagner, Kant and the Metaphysical Rubber Chicken’, Ludomusicology 2013 Conference (12th – 13th April 2013, Liverpool University)

2012, ‘From Epic Texturing to Playful Negotiation: Game Music Aesthetics’, RMA Study Day Ludomusicology: Approaches and Aesthetics, (16th April 2012, Oxford University)

2012 Invited Colloquia Speaker, University of Liverpool

2011 ‘Approaching and Analyzing Music in Video Games’, Music Since 1900, Lancaster University

2011 ‘Why Should We Study Video Game Music?’, Bristol University

2009 ‘Star Trek and the Musical Depiction of the Alien Other’ , Sixth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, Keele University

2008 ‘Discussing Music Amelodically: The Music of Family Guy’, Bristol University

About me and research

Dr. Melanie Fritsch is a Junior professor for Media and Cultural Studies with a focus on Game Studies and related fields at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Her doctoral thesis “Performing bytes. Musikperformances der Computerspielkultur” (“Performing bytes. Music performances of video game culture“) was published in 2018, and she is now co-editing “The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music” with Tim Summers.

She is also a member of the Executive Board of “The Society for the Study of Sound and Music in Games” (www.sssmg.org ), and has been part of the AHRC research network “Guitar Heroes in Music Education? Music-based video-games and their potential for musical and performative creativity” in 2014-2015. She further co-organized the GameCamp Berlin in 2016-2020, is a Co-founder of the AG Spiele (WG Games) of the Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries association and a member of the Speaker team of the AG Games (WG Games) of the German Society for Media Studies since October 2020.

In 2011 she edited the issue of “ACT – Zeitschrift für Musik und Performance” focusing on video games and music. Her recent publications appeared i.a. in Digitale Spiele: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zu Diskursfeldern, Inszenierung und Musik, Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music, Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play, and the Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio.

For more information on her academic output (full list of talks, publications, activities) see her Academia-page.

About me and research

Dr Andra Ivănescu is a Lecturer in Game Studies and Ludomusicology at Brunel University London. After completing her BA at the National University of Music Bucharest and her MA at the University of Salford, her PhD research in video game music was funded by The Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute (CoDE) at Anglia Ruskin University. As part of her current role, Andra has also contributed to the development of a sound and music pathway as part of the BA Games Design programme. Andra’s primary area of research lies at the intersection of video games, music, and popular culture, but her interests often extend to other areas of ludomusicology and game studies as well. She has contributed work to a number of essay collections, most recently the Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music, and her work has been published in journals including The Soundtrack and The Computer Games Journal. Her monograph, Popular Music in the Nostalgia Video Game: The Way It Never Sounded, was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.

Publications:

Chapters in Edited Collections:

2021. Pop Music, Economics and Marketing. In T. Summers, & M. Fritsch (Eds.), Cambridge Companion for Video Game Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

With Carbone, M. B. 2020. Games and Players. In K. Ross, I. Bachmann, V. Cardo, S. Moorti, & C. M. Scarcelli (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication (pp. 7 pages). Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc015

2020. The Auteur and the 80s Mixtape: Popular Music and Authenticity in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. In M. Lorber, & F. Zimmermann (Eds.), Contingencies of an Authentic Past. Transcript.
2021. Westworld and the Pursuit of Meaningful Play. In A. Mackay, & A. Goody (Eds.), Reading Westworld (pp. 79-96). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-14515-6_5

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

2018. Beneath a Steel Sky: A Musical Characterisation of Class Structure. The Computer Games Journal, 7, 231-242.
2019. Torched Song: The Hyperreal and the Music of L.A. Noire. The Soundtrack, 8 (1-2), 41-56.

Conference Papers:

2020. Flow It, Show It, Play It: Hair in Digital Games. In DiGRA ’20 – Proceedings of the 2020 DiGRA International Conference: Play Everywhere.
2021. Inhuman Music and the Monstrous Feminine, presented at the 6th North American Conference on Video Game Music, The University of Hartford (30-31 March 2019)
2022. The Sound of Romanian Protest, presented at the Royal Musical Association 55^th Annual Conference, University of Manchester and Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (11-12 September 2019)
2023. Evoland and the Player as Media Archaeologist, presented at the Central and Eastern European Game Studies Conference, Trnava (28-29 September 2017)

Monograph:

2019. Popular Music in the Nostalgia Game: The Way It Never Sounded. (1st ed.) London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

About me and research

Dr Mark Sweeney is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Society for the Study of Sound & Music in Games. After completing a BA in music at Oxford University, he received an AHRC award in support of an MSt (Distinction) in musicology, with a dissertation on non-linear video game music, and this was expanded into a DPhil thesis on aesthetic theory and videogame music. He has taught faculty classes and college tutorials across the University and was a Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He has also supervised dissertations on video game music at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Aside from the editorial duties with the group described above, Mark has also contributed conference papers, book chapters and articles on topics including diegetic folk music, social interaction in MMOs and the relationships between Hollywood film music and video game music.