Gaming, Music, and Digital Tradition Converge at RPI

A National Gathering Exploring the Sound of Gaming

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) will host the thirteenth North American Conference on Video Game Music (NACVGM) on May 1 and a pair of on the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC). This convention, which may also be out there nearly, brings collectively students from internationally to discover the most recent analysis on the position of music and sound in video video games. 

Research, Performance, and Play

Video video games form leisure, storytelling, and widespread tradition, and this occasion facilities on one of many medium’s strongest components: audio. Over two days, attendees will discover how music and sound affect gameplay, emotion, identification, reminiscence, and world-building. NACVGM will characteristic immersive programming together with analysis shows, recreation demonstrations, poster classes, and a dwell live performance. 

Dr. Melanie Fritsch, Junior Professor for Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, will ship the convention’s keynote tackle. An internationally acknowledged scholar, Fritsch is a co-founder of the Society for the Study of Sound and Music in Games and a co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music.  

RPI: Shaping the Future of Gaming

The convention additionally highlights RPI’s management on the intersection of expertise, creativity, and recreation design. RPI is house to the Department of Games and Experiential Media, a flagship program identified for cutting-edge work in gaming analysis and schooling. 

Will Gibbons, Ph.D., Dean of RPI’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS), is a number one scholar of online game music, authoring and modifying a number of books together with The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound and Unlimited Replays: Video Games and Classical Music.

“We are proud and honored to host NACVGM at RPI,” mentioned Gibbons. “The study of video game music blends artistic creativity, humanistic inquiry, and technological innovation. This work explores play as a fundamental part of the human experience. There simply is no better place for these conversations than RPI.”

For more information and to register, visit nacvgm.org.