March 4, 2015, Game Developer Conference, San Francisco,–Jim Fowler from Sony World Wide Studios talked about the need for composers and other music creators to pay attention to more than just the notes. Orchestration depends on instrument combinations and changes in the mix to generate feelings and intensity. The first part of the practice is…
October 9, 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—Floyd Toole talked about changes in venues and sound systems, and the emerging science to characterize the loudspeakers to be best suited for those areas. Most speakers are measured in anechoic chambers with a single mike, which differs very dramatically from real installations and our ability to…
October 9, 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—Winifred Phillips from Generations Productions talked about the nuts and bolts of interactive music in a session on game audio. The most important facet of game music is that it not like other music. In the game “Frogger” the music starts with a moderate tempo, and accelerates…
March 26, 2014, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Zoufu Cheng from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne talked about making the audio as good as the video in games. The ability of the GPUs to process rays can be applied to acoustics as well as to the images to provide a more immersive game experience….
May 2, 2013, Neuro-Gaming Conference,San Francisco—It is now possible to control sounds with the brain and personal scent delivery devices are around the corner. A panel moderated by Richard Warp from LeapFrog evaluated the potential for these additional sensory experiences for games. The panel members were Steve Horowitz from The Code International, Jim Hedges from…