Dynamic Music in Video Games | How Game Designers Create Interactive Music with Play and Sound

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Rez (2001)
Duration: 16:22
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This video examines dynamic music in video games, and how game designers craft interactive music using a variety of techniques. We examine the history of music in games, as well as the many techniques of dynamic composition, including vertical layering and generative effects to examine how Game music is different from other musical forms.

Dynamic music in games is a new genesis of interactive music, that incorporates player action into the landscape, and we examine how games like rez, thumper, beat saber and the tetris effect incorporate not only interactive techniques, but also infuse these into their narratives.

Sources

-Play Along Zack Whalen
http://www.gamestudies.org/0401/whalen/

-Playing WIth Sound, Karen Collins

-A Composers guide to game music , Winifred Phillips

-The World In Six Songs, Daniel Levetin

-This is your Brian on Music -Daniel Levetin

- A grounded investigation of game music
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221515445_A_grounded_investigation_of_game_immersion

-Musilanguage Stuart Brown
http://neuroarts.org/pdf/musilanguage.pdf

-Dynamics Clint Hocking
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014597/Dynamics-The-State-of-the

-Keys to Play Roger Mosely

-Gdc Rez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtSaFsMKrkI

-Gdc Thumper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckm8_SEIXQM

-Gdc The Tetris Effect
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1026528/Making-Tetris-Effect



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