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Session Overview
Session
Music, Games, Performance, and Play
Time:
Thursday, 14/Nov/2024:
7:30pm - 9:30pm

 Location: Adams

6th floor, Palmer House Hilton Hotel
Session Topics:
Evening [2 hours max], Film and Media Studies

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Presentations

Music, Games, Performance, and Play

Chair(s): Richard John Anatone (Prince George's Community College), James Heazlewood-Dale (Brandeis University)

Presenter(s): Gregg Rossetti (Rutgers University), Pamela Mason-Nguyen (UC Santa Barbara), Yun-Kiu Lo (Temple University), Jordan Good (Tufts University), Natalie Miller (Princeton University), Ryan Bunch (Temple University)

Organized by the Ludomusicology Study Group.

Over the past several years, there has been an increasing interest in expanding the field of ludomusicology from music/sound in video games to consider other forms of play and games, ranging from music's relationship with amusement parks (for example, the All Ears: Music and Sound in and Beyond Disney Theme Parks Conference, to be held in June 2024) to analog games (see Borecky 2021). Scholars have broadened their scope of research as it pertains to both “play” and “games,” considering music’s relationship to amusement parks, casinos, board games, and sports stadiums, as well as the social games in which we engage in our everyday lives. And while performance has always been an integral part of this research, it has traditionally been segregated from the academic engagement and, instead, relegated to its own musical space like concert or recital halls. To mark the 10th anniversary of the AMS Ludomusicology Study Group, we aim to further expand our research endeavors by focusing on elements of performance, arrangement, and composition to our academic space.

This year, we are excited to invite music arrangements and original music game compositions in addition to research papers to participate in our Study Group’s session. Selected music games and arrangements will be played and performed by everyone in attendance who is willing, and we are thus encouraging all those who attend this session to bring their own small/pocket-sized instruments (e.g., flute, clarinet, otamatone, slide trumpet, melodica, nose flute, jaw harp, harmonica, ukelele, etc.).

We invite scholars, performers, composers, and arrangers to submit a proposal within one of the following areas:

  1. Lightning talks on performance, arrangements, or compositions based on elements of games and play (10 minutes + 5 minutes for Q&A)

  2. Original scores to a rules-based music game composition for unspecified instruments

  3. Arrangements of music from any type of known game in the form of lead sheets (these arrangements may also be a rules-based music game)

Those selected will be given 15 minutes for their presentation; this includes any discussion on the rules of the music game or arrangement.