Sound, Embodiment, and the Experience of Interactivity in Video Games & Virtual Environments
- 1. Lori Landay Professor of Cultural Studies Berklee College of Music SCMS13
- 2. Innovative sound can bridge the gaps between the physical body, represented body, and imagined body in video games.
- 3. Do you feel the wind? Where? Why? Grand Theft Auto IV: The Battle of Gay Tony Rockstar North, 2009
- 4. Do you feel the wind? Where? Why? Flower, thatgamecompany, 2009
- 5. Walter Murch’s aural spectrum http://transom.org/?page_id=7006
- 6. unified sound, image, action in a virtual environment Char Davies, Osmose (1994-96)
- 8. GAPS BETWEEN the physical body of the player, the screen body represented on the screen, perhaps by an avatar, and the imagined body comprised of the mental image and nonconscious sensory-motor processes of the physical body and also the virtual body Sound has the potential to bridge the points of disconnection among these embodiment perspectives in a way that image and action cannot.
- 9. Sound effects & music in Portal 2 sound of soaring through the air after bouncing on “Aerial Faith Plate,” a sound effect that can be better understood as a musical event than a diegetic sound Dan Bruno http://cruiseelroy.net/2011/06/portal-2-music/
- 10. Speech as sound effects in Portal 2
- 11. Portal 2, Valve, 2011
- 12. “Technology mirrors our desires; interactive technologies, in particular, reflect our desire to feel engaged.” David Rokeby, “Transforming Mirrors: Subjectivity and Control in Interactive Media,” 1996