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From Interactive Audio Wiki

Contents 1 Game Audio Books 2 Online Articles and White Papers 3 Composer Interviews 4 Sound Designer Interviews 5 Game Audio Newsgroups and E-Mail Lists 6 Schools and Universities with Game Audio Programs 7 Game Audio Events 8 Organizations & Web Sites

Game Audio Books

This section is devoted to books on game audio and related disciplines.

• General Game Audio Books - These books focus on game audio specifically.

• Game Audio Programming Books - These books are for people interested in learning about programming for game audio.

• Game Audio Technology Books - These books are generally about a specific audio technology used in game design.

• Interactive Music Composition Books - These books are about intereractive composition techniques applied to music.

• Sound Design Books - These books are about the general topic of sound design (mostly film related), not specifically applied towards game audio.

• Studio Skills Books - These books are another set of related skills that might not be specifically geared toward game audio.

• Synthesis Books - These books are about synthesis and artificial instrument building techniques.

• Field Recording - Books about general techniques for on-site recording.

Online Articles and White Papers

• Project Bar-B-Q 2007 Group Report: iHear the Future - The Binaural Headset as Audio Contact Lenses and Our Inevitable Mixed-In Lifestyle of Personal Audio Networks

• Project Bar-B-Q 2007 Group Report: Overcoming Roadblocks in the Quest for Interactive Audio

• Project Bar-B-Q 2007 Group Report: Call for a Highly Distributed Metadata

• Project Bar-B-Q 2007 Group Report: Game Producer�s Guide to Audio

• Project Bar-B-Q 2007 Group Report: The Computer as a Musical Instrument

• Project Bar-B-Q 2006 Group Report: Providing a High Level of Mixing Aesthetics in Interactive Audio and Games

• Project Bar-B-Q 2006 Group Report: Facilitating Remote Jam Sessions

• Project Bar-B-Q 2006 Group Report: Ensuring that PC Audio Editing/Rendering Plug-ins and Processors Always Work

• GameSpot's Deigner Diary - Crafting Sound by Richard Joseph

• Loops and Bloops: Music on the Commodore 64. (Soundscapes: Journal of Media Culture. Volume 8: February.) Karen Collins

• Musical Techniques for Interactivity. Gamasutra. (requires free registration). Donald S. Griffin.

• [http:/www.audiogames.net/ics/upload/gameenvironment.htm The Game Environment from an Auditive Perspective]. Axel Stockburger.

• Video Games of Note. (Whitepaper on state of Games Audio).

• Design with Music in Mind: A Guide to Adaptive Audio for Game Designers. Gamasutra. (requires free registration) Guy Whitmore.

• Looking Back On The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodness by The Fat Man, George Alistair Sanger

• GameSpot's Deigner Diary - Crafting Sound by Richard Joseph

• Project Bar-B-Q 2005 Group Report: New Approaches for Developing Interactive Audio Production Systems

• Project Bar-B-Q 2005 Group Report: Improving Computer Audio and Music Production Systems User Interfaces

• Project Bar-B-Q 2004 Group Report: Mobile Phone Audio - Lessons Learned from Games and the Web

• Project Bar-B-Q 2004 Group Report: PRAGMA (Pet Rocks and Game Music Alliance) - Using game consoles as music making devices.

• Project Bar-B-Q 2003 Group Report: What is Is Interactive Audio? And What Should It Be?

• Project Bar-B-Q 2003 Group Report: IXMF Rollout Outline

• Project Bar-B-Q 2002 Group Report: User Interface Design Issues for Audio Creation Tools

• Project Bar-B-Q 2002 Group Report: Maximizing the Resources Available to Achieve Quality Game Audio

• Project Bar-B-Q 2001 Group Report: Towards Interactive XMF - The start of the iXMF container file format.

• Project Bar-B-Q 2001 Group Report: Game Audio Network Guild - The start of G.A.N.G.

• Making the Game: Audio/Sound FX Production dSonic's Vincent Stefanelli, Kemal Amarasingham, Simon Amarasingham By Don Lee

• Introduction to Interactive Game Audio An excerpt from the book Audio Programming for Interactive Games By Martin Wilde

• BIGGER than BIG! The Game Audio Explosion By Steve Kutay

• Auto Assault Q&A - The Music of Auto Assault with Richard Dekkard

• Could Mobile Game Audio BE More Annoying?! by Peter Drescher

• Audio Engineer Career Overview

• IGDA Breaking in Audio Profiles

Composer Interviews

• Let's Play Peek-a-Boo: An Interview With George "The Fat Man" Sanger, Mix Magazine, Mar 1, 2008, By Alexander Brandon

• Jesper Kyd on Pushing the Envelope for Game Music

• Chance Thomas Discusses X-Men Game

• Halo Aims for Epic End to Trilogy by BBC - Marty O'Donnell Discusses Music for the Series.

• Prey: Video game music finally grows-up

• Interview with Charles Deenen, Senior Audio Director - Electronic Arts Vancouver

• Interview with Tim Wright, Composer for Shadow of the Beast, Wipeout and more

• Interview with Alan Koshiyami, on the audio of Pac-Man Party

• Matt Uelmen of the Diablo series discusses the role of audio in gaming and more

• Michael McCann on the music of Splinter Cell Double Agent

• Anthony Putson Talks About the Life of a Freelance Video Game Composer.

• Hirokazu Tanaka discusses his writing process and career.

• Tommy Tallarico on composing for games

• Jack Wall talks to IGN about his score for Mass Effect

• Interview with Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall on Video Games Live

• Interview with Audio Team for Megaman 1&2

• Jesper Kyd on his music for Assassin's Creed

• Interview with Uncharted 2 composer, Greg Edmonson

• Gerard Marino discusses his score for God Of War III

• Mark Morgan on the soundtrack for Fallout

• Alone In The Dark composer Olivier Deriviere discusses the score

• Portal 2 composer Mike Morasky talks about the game's dynamic score

• Video- Interview with Koji Kondo on his experiences as a legendary video game composer

• Video- Marty O'Donnell discusses his background and more

• Video- Amon Tobin and Chuck Doud talk about the process of scoring Infamous

• Video- Chrono Trigger composer, Yasunori Mitsuda discusses the score (Part 1)

• Video- Chrono Trigger composer, Yasunori Mitsuda discusses the score (Part 2)

• Video- Epic Mikey composer Jim Dooley Interview

• Video- In-depth GameSpot interview with Nobuo Uematsu

• Video- Inon Zur on the music of Dragon Age II

• Video- Collection of Interviews covering Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption

• Video- Civilization IV composer Christopher Tin talks about his process, the future of game music, and more.

• Video- Jack Wall talks about Video Games Live

Sound Designer Interviews

• Veteran Film Sound Designer Randy Thom Talks about Upcoming Scarface Videogame

• The Sounds of Scarface: A Conversation With Skywalker Sound's Randy Thom

• Titan Quest Designer Diary #3 - Music and Sound of an Ancient World

• Why I Love Sound - By Bryen Hensley (on vintage army jeep sounds that ended up in Stubbs the Zombie)

• WIRED - Jeff Kliment Making Those Games Sound Right

• Audio Director Heather Sowards Talks About the Sound Design of EverQuest II

• Made out of People - Games and Sound

• Smearing Discontinuity :: In-Game Sound by Jeremy Yuille

• Big Wheels Sound Studio Q&A

• Making the Game: Audio/Sound FX Production : dSonic's Vincent Stefanelli, Kemal Amarasingham, Simon Amarasingham

• Shadow of The Colossus - A Sonification Case Study

Game Audio Newsgroups and E-Mail Lists

• Game Audio Pro List on Yahoo Groups

• Sound Design Discussion List on Yahoo Groups

• Sound Article List on Yahoo Groups

• FreeList's DirectMusic List

• Northern Sound Source Game Audio Web Newsgroup

• Game Maker Community -> Sound and Music

Schools and Universities with Game Audio Programs

• Gamasutra Education Section

• Berklee College of Music - Video Game Scoring Minor

• Cogswell College

• Expression College for Digital Arts

• Guildhall at SMU - Digital Games Program

• Savannah College of Art and Design - Sound Design Program

• Savannah College of Art and Design - Interactive Design and Game Development

• Vancouver Film School - Sound Design Program

• Vancouver Film School- Game Design Program

• University of Advancing Technology

• Academy of Art University

• Full Sail - Game Design and Development

• Full Sail - Recording Arts

• Collins College - Game Design

• Center for Digital Imaging Arts

• Univertsity of Southern California

Game Audio Events

• Austin Game Developers Conference - The Austin GDC has an audio track that presents material at intermediate and advanced levels only.

• Project Bar-B-Q - hosted by the Fat Man. An intense music think tank held annually that concentrates on advancing audio for games.

• Game Developers Conference - Annual get-together for game makers with many sessions specifically on game audio.

• Game Tech Conference - Game Developers technical summit.

Organizations & Web Sites

• GANG - Game Audio Network Guild - Professional organization formed in 2002 that focuses on educating and advancing Game Audio.

• IASIG - Interactive Audio Special Interest Group - Non profit organization that creates standards, white papers, and educational initiatives for interactive audio. This organization is an independent organization supervised by the Midi Manufacturers Association.

• IGDA - Independent Games Developer Association - Non profit oganization that advances the international game development community.

• Gamasutra Audio Section - Site dedicated to game audio specifically.

• Sonify.org - Website devoted to interactive music and sound, mostly dedicated to web and mobile mediums.

• FilmSound.org - Site devoted to sound design in film.

• GamesSound.com - Academic articles about games audio.