Something for @gamesformusic since it mentions various 19th cent. musical games:

Carmel Raz: The Hidden History of Women Game Designers. Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.

JSTOR Daily, 2025-11-26

https://daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-history-of-women-game-designers/

#ludomusicology #gameStudies #historyOfGames

📢 📄 Call for Papers: Die Videospielmusikforschungsgruppe Ludomusicology sucht für die kommende Ludo2026-Konferenz unter dem Thema

‘Pushing limits and crossing borders’.

Einreichungen! Weitere Details, Deadline und Konferenzdatum findet ihr unter:

https://www.ludomusicology.org/2025/11/16/ludo2026-call-for-papers/

#gameStudies #videospiel #ludomusicology #musik

Just published: The chapter from Melanie Fritsch and me about the historical ways to (de)scribe #videogame music and sounds. I contributed a part about sound generation and description wiht #BASIC for the #Atari #8-Bit #HomeComputers

https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503618654-1

#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Ludomusicology

https://www.timeextension.com/features/i-guess-you-could-say-i-was-in-the-zone-the-story-behind-classic-fighting-game-anthem-edge-of-soul

… a tale of souls and swords eternally told!

Wonderful article on the team behind the music to the PlayStation game Soul Edge. I have fond memories of being sent the Japanese version many, many years ago and just how impressed we all were with the music, let alone the game ❤️

#playstation #namco #psx #gamedev #crediting #ludomusicology

In August Melanie Fritsch's and my chapter on generating #game #sound with #BASIC will be published in:

Melanie Fritsch/Stefan Höltgen: Boing Boom Tschak: De/Scribing Sounds with BASIC. In: Karen M. Cook, William Gibbons, Fanny Rebillard (eds): Global Histories of Video Game Music Technology.

More infos: https://shrtn.escalar.pt/rGyy

#GameStudies #GameSound #Ludomusicology

📖 Buchankündigung: eine weitere erste Monografie unseren Mitglied ist live! Dabei behandelt @christopher_wulf im

Ludoaudiovisuelle Harmonie. Die komplexe Verbindung von Musik und Computerspiel

das besagte Thema - kurz gesagt, wie kann Musik mit anderen Elementen eines Videospiels wie z.B. Gameplay verbunden werden. Das Buch könnt ihr unter dem Link bestellen.

https://www.vwh-verlag-shop.de/epages/61236266.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61236266/Products/978-3-86488-204-3

#gamestudies #games #ludomusicology #gamemusic

Super excited to see our latest game music research piece is out, co-authored with Dr. Hillegonda C. Rietveld

'Ch8: Strutting with Streets of Rage: When Dance Music Enters the Fight.'

https://routledge.com/Music-and-Sonic-Environments-in-Video-Games-Listening-to-and-Performing-Ludic-Soundscapes/Galloway-Hambleton/p/book/9781032230320

#dance #techno #megadrive #videogames #research #gameaudio #vgm #ludomusicology

Just published:

Symbolic Music and Algorithmic Composing: Computer Archaeological Perspectives on #BASIC #Game Sounds.

https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197556160.013.3

#Soundchip #GameSound #Ludomusicology