Essays About video games

Sound Play

by William Cheng NOTE. Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination was published by Oxford University Press in May 2014. Here is an excerpt. Around the same time my dad dropped a Nintendo controller in my four-year-old hands, my mom tucked a Yamaha piano under my fingers… Read More

Conference Report: Video Game Music

by Ryan Thompson I enjoyed speaking at the inaugural North American Conference on Video Game Music, which took place at Youngstown State University during the holiday weekend of January 17–20. Conference organizer Steven Reale and his program committee, chaired by William Gibbons, showed, indisputably, how the… Read More