Foundations in Sound Design for Interactive Media

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to foundational topics in sound design for interactive media, such as gaming and virtual reality; compositional techniques; new interfaces; sound spatialization; sonic cues and semiotics; performance and installations; music on the web; augmented reality applications; and sound producing software design. The reader will gain a broad understanding of the key concepts and practices that define sound design for its use in computational media and design. The chapters are written by international authors from diverse backgrounds who provide multidisciplinary perspectives on sound in its interactive forms. The volume is designed as a textbook for students and teachers, as a handbook for researchers in sound, design and media, and as a survey of key trends and ideas for practitioners interested in exploring the boundaries of their profession.

Michael Filimowicz, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University and co-editor of The Soundtrack journal. He develops new forms of general-purpose multimodal and audiovisual display technology, exploring novel product lines across different application contexts including gaming, immersive exhibitions, control rooms, telepresence and simulation-based training. He has published across disciplines in journals such as Organised Sound, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Leonardo, Sound Effects, Parsons Journal for Information Mapping and Semiotica. His art has been exhibited internationally at venues such as SIGGRAPH, Re-New, Design Shanghai, ARTECH, Les Instants Vidéo, IDEAS, Kinsey Institute and Art Currents, and published in monographs such as Spotlight: 20 Years of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, Reframing Photography and Infinite Instances. His personal website is http://filimowi.cz.

Series Preface - Michael Filimowicz Volume Introduction - Michael Filimowicz 1 Cinematic Sound Design for Players - Tom A. Garner 2 Aleatory Acoustics, Mechanics and Aesthetics: Game Sound Design With Audio Controllers and Their Interfaces - Sheldon Schiffer 3 Designing Game Audio Based on Avatar-Centred Subjectivity - Jonathan Weinel, Stuart Cunningham 4 Presence and Biofeedback in First-Person Perspective Computer Games: The Potential of Sound - Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard 5 Composed to Experience: The Cognitive Psychology of Interactive Music for Video Games - Hans-Peter Gasselseder 6 Interfaces for Sound Installation - Greg Corness, Kristin Carlson, Prophecy Sun 7 Sound Spatialization - Enda Bates, Brian Bridges, Adam Melvin 8 Thinking sound-motion objects - Rolf Inge Godøy 9 Climb! - a Composition Case Study: Actualising and Replicating Virtual Spaces in Classical Music Composition and Performance - Maria Kallionpää, Hans-Peter Gasselseder 10 Interactive Music on the Web - Sang Won Lee, Benjamin Taylor, Georg Essl 11 Auditory Cue Design - David McGookin 12 Soundscape Generation Systems - Miles Thorogood 13 Sound Effect Synthesis - David Moffat, Rod Selfridge, Joshua D. Reiss 14 Audio Augmented Reality For Interactive Soundwalks, Sound Art and Music Delivery - Dafna Naphtali, Richard Rodkin 15 Soundscape Online Databases State of the Art and Challenges - Miles Thorogood, Phiippe Pasquier Index