Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play

Harrison, L.A. 2025. Forthcoming. Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play. Focal Press.

TitleInteractive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play
AuthorsHarrison, L.A.
Abstract

Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play provides an accessible exploration into the aesthetics of interactive audio, using examples from video games, experimental music, and participatory theatre and sound installations. Offering a practitioner’s perspective, the book places interactive sound and music within a broader aesthetic context relating to key texts and discussion within musicology and wider art practices. Each chapter takes the reader through a key debate surrounding interactive sound and music, such as:

- Is it actually interactive and does it actually matter?
- How do audience expectations change in an interactive space?
- How do you compose for multiple possibilities?
- Is interactive sound and music ever finished?
- Where now for interactive sound and music?

Supported by a series of questions at the end of each chapter that can be used as a focus for seminar or reading group activities, this is an ideal textbook for students on audio engineering, music technology, and game audio courses, as well as an essential guide for anyone interested in interactive sound and music.

KeywordsInteractive sound
interactive music
sound art
Ludomusicology
Year2025
PublisherFocal Press
Publication dates
Published in printJan 2025
Published23 Dec 2024
EditionFirst
ISBN9781032382395
9781003344148
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003344148
Web address (URL)https://www.routledge.com/Interactive-Sound-and-Music-Beyond-Pressing-Play/Harrison/p/book/9781032382395

Related outputs

Introduction
Harrison, L. 2025. Forthcoming. Introduction. in: Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play Routledge.

Still Lives
Lost Text/Found Space, Harrison, L., McCutcheon, R. and Rebellato, D. 2024. Still Lives. The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye 02 - 13 Jul 2024

Still Lives (Workshop)
Lost Text/Found Space, Harrison, L., McCutcheon, R. and Rebellato, D. 2023. Still Lives (Workshop). The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye 17 - 18 Nov 2023

Creating Interactive Sound
Harrison, L. 2022. Creating Interactive Sound. Lighthouse (ed.) Women in Music: Arte Sônica Amplificada. Online across Brazil Apr 2022

Bridging the Technical Divide: Techniques for effective communication with artists
Harrison, L., Britton, N., Chatterley, A. and Russell, M. 2021. Bridging the Technical Divide: Techniques for effective communication with artists. AES Spring Show. Online 25 - 28 May 2021 Audio Engineering Society.

Guiding Audiences with Sound: Techniques for interactive and games audio.
Harrison, L. 2021. Guiding Audiences with Sound: Techniques for interactive and games audio. AES Spring Show. Online 25 - 28 May 2021 Audio Engineering Society.

Music and Sound in Virtual/Augmented Realities-Questions, Challenges and Approaches A Multidisciplinary Roundtable
Summer, T., Cook, J., Famer, W., Ferrè, E.R., Harrison, L., Hemming, R., Nescu, A.I., Reed, L., Roberts, F., Stevens, R., Tatlow, S. and Whittaker, L. 2021. Music and Sound in Virtual/Augmented Realities-Questions, Challenges and Approaches A Multidisciplinary Roundtable. Journal of Sound and Music in Games. 2 (2), pp. 63-83. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsmg.2021.2.2.63

Teaching Principles of Interactive Sound
Harrison, L A. 2021. Teaching Principles of Interactive Sound. in: Stevens, B. (ed.) Teaching Electronic Music Routledge. pp. 90-102

Guiding Audiences with Sound
Harrison, L. 2020. Guiding Audiences with Sound. Lighthouse (ed.) The Space in Sound. Online Sep 2020

The Living Library
Seadog Theatre, Harrison, L., Bridges, L, Slade, E. and Trower, S. 2020. The Living Library.

The Living Library
Seadog Theatre, Harrison, L., Bridges, L., Slade, E. and Trower, S. 2020. The Living Library. Sinespace

Principles of gaming sound in interactive and immersive theatre
Harrison, L. 2019. Principles of gaming sound in interactive and immersive theatre. Ludo2019. Leeds Beckett 26 - 28 Apr 2019

Memories of Fiction: The Living Library
Harrison, L. 2018. Memories of Fiction: The Living Library.

Control, collaboration and audience engagement in interactive sound installations
Harrison, L. 2018. Control, collaboration and audience engagement in interactive sound installations. PhD thesis Royal Holloway, University of London Music

Til We Meet in England
Lost Text/Found Space, McCutcheon, R. and Harrison, L. 2017. Til We Meet in England.

A Testimony and a Silence
Lost Text/Found Space, McCutcheon, R. and Harrison, L. 2016. A Testimony and a Silence.

Lives, loves and loss: Traces at Fenton House
Traces and Harrison, L. 2016. Lives, loves and loss: Traces at Fenton House.

That I will do my best...
Harrison, L. 2014. That I will do my best... Alexandra Palace 22 - 23 Feb 2014

The Wind Singer
Harrison, L. 2013. The Wind Singer. Girlguiding ICANDO, London Apr 2013

Mariam at Burford: Youth and Young Girlhood
Lost Text/Found Space, McCutcheon, R. and Harrison, L. 2013. Mariam at Burford: Youth and Young Girlhood.

Cary: The Mariam Cycles
Lost Text/Found Space, McCutcheon, R. and Harrison, L. 2013. Cary: The Mariam Cycles.

Permalink - https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/wv717/interactive-sound-and-music-beyond-pressing-play


Share this

Usage statistics

52 total views
0 total downloads
These values cover views and downloads from WestminsterResearch and are for the period from September 2nd 2018, when this repository was created.