with its first themed issue devoted to the topic “Computer Games and Music”, the new peer-reviewed online journal “Act – Zeitschrift für Musik & Performance” would like to stimulate considerations of the field from the perspectives of musicology, theatre studies, media studies and related disciplines in order to develop new ideas, approaches, and questions.
Possible subjects include:
* The history of computer game music
* The aesthetics of computer game music
* The relationship of picture and sound in computer games
* Interactivity
* Methodological questions
We invite all authors who have an interest in addressing this topic to submit their essays. The supported languages are German, English, French and Italian.
Contributions should not exceed 45,000 characters including spaces.
The submission deadline for articles is Sept. 1st 2010.
Please use the following email-address for questions and submissions:
act@uni-bayreuth.de
The entire call can also be found on www.act.uni-bayreuth.de