Interactive Sound and Music - Beyond Pressing Play

Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play provides an accessible exploration into the aesthetics of interactive audio, using examples from video games, experimental music, and participatory theatre and sound installations.

List of contents

1. Is it actually interactive and does it actually matter? 2. How do audience expectations change in an interactive space? 3. How do you compose for multiple possibilities? 4. More than novelty: How can you make interaction a meaningful part of the work? 5. Is interactive sound and music ever finished? 6. Can we create an artefact of a piece of interactive audio? 7. Where now for interactive sound and music?

About the author

Lucy Ann Harrison is a composer, sound designer and academic based at the University of Westminster, UK. Works include a library themed puzzle game, an interactive blanket fort complete with a musical hopscotch, motion sensitive sound created using gaming controllers and critically acclaimed music for immersive theatre.

Summary

Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play provides an accessible exploration into the aesthetics of interactive audio, using examples from video games, experimental music, and participatory theatre and sound installations.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Ann Harrison
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032382401
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3238240-1
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; COMPUTERS / Interactive & Multimedia, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Acoustics & Sound, Theatre Studies, Games development & programming, Film production: technical & background skills, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / General, Games development and programming, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Audio, Digital Animation, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Video & Animation, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills, Audio processing