Lecture: The Sonic Past(s) in Video Games (Karen Cook)
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Description
The Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center is pleased to present Karen Cook (University of Hartford) , who will deliver a lecture titled "The Sonic Past(s) in Video Games."
About the Speaker
Karen M. Cook is an associate professor at the University of Hartford's Hartt School of Music. She specializes in the music, theory, and notation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and also in medievalism in contemporary music and media, especially video games.
She has presented her work at numerous national and international conferences, including the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, the annual Medieval-Renaissance music conference, the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, the 2015 conference on Philippe de Vitry, and the North American Conference on Video Game Music, for which she sits on the planning committee.
She is on the advisory board for the “Ars Antiqua Online: A Digital Edition of Thirteenth-Century Polyphony” and an executive committee member of the Society for the Study of Sound and Music in Games, and she recently became associate editor for the Journal of Sound and Music in Games. She also regularly streams with the “Ludomusicology Stream Team” on Thursday nights on Twitch.
Price
Free
Admission Information
Open to the public. No tickets required.