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Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music offers a novel account of the ways in which video games invite us to hear and listen to their music. By taking a phenomenological approach to characterize music in video games, author Michiel Kamp asks what it is we hear in the music when we play a game. Drawing on past phenomenological approaches to music as well as studies of music listening in a variety of disciplines such as aesthetics and ecological psychology, Kamp explains four main ways of hearing the same piece of music--through background, aesthetic, ludic, and semiotic hearing. As a background, music is not attended to at all, but can still be described in terms of moods, affordances, or equipment. Aesthetic hearing is a reflective attitude that invites hermeneutic interpretation; ludic hearing on the other hand invites "playing along" to the music, either through embodied movement, or in response to the music's cinematic or theatrical connotations. Finally, in semiotic hearing, Kamp argues that we hear music as transparent symbols or signals that provide information about the state of a game. The book investigates these four categories through detailed case studies of video games from a variety of eras and genres accompanied by gameplay recordings and images on a companion website.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements About the companion website Introduction: towards a phenomenology of video game music Poietic and aesthesic approaches Game design strategies and gameplay tactics Ways of hearing Phenomenology as an approach to video game music Whose phenomenology? 1. Background music Case study: StarCraft Background music as ground Background music as mood or atmosphere Background music as affordance Background music as equipment Conclusions 2. Aesthetic music Case study: Minecraft Having an aesthetic experience Nostalgic hearing Hearing beauty in virtual nature Authored musical moments Aesthetic listening as interpretation Conclusions 3. Ludic Music Affect, or "doing this really fast is fun" Case study: Proteus Inward dancing and embodied listening Music games, synaesthesia, and glee Musical movement and emotional context Conclusions 4. Semiotic music Case study: Left 4 Dead Musical signs Musical symbols Musical signals and anticipation Broken and unestablished signs Conclusions Conclusion Hearing video game music in context Other ways of hearing A final word on hermeneutics Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Michiel Kamp is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Utrecht University, where he teaches on music and audio-visual media. He is co-founder of the UK-based Ludomusicology Research Group, which has organised yearly conferences on video game music in the UK and abroad since 2011. His research centres on video game music and other screen media, with a particular interest in phenomenologies and hermeneutics of listening.

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With this study Kamp adds another volume to the long-running "Oxford Music/Media Series." Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music is relatively brief but densely packed with vivid descriptions of video games and their accompanying music. Recommended. In Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music, author Michiel Kamp takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying videogame music, synthesizing the fields of ludomusicology and phenomenology. The result is a heavily philosophical examinationof the role of music within the experience of playing a game. This book stands out as an essential read and groundbreaking contribution to ludomusicological studies, with broader applicability to any sociological investigation of sound perception. It offers a fresh, updated, and innovative perspective that significantly enriches the academic landscape.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780197651216
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 156 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 235 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0197651216
  • Publisher Date: 28 Mar 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Oxford Music / Media
  • Weight: 454 gr


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