North American Conference on
Video Game Music 2026
NACVGM 13
Virtual and In-Person Conference
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
May 1–2, 2026
Thank you to our sponsors!


Keynote Speaker: Melanie Fritsch
Dr. phil. Melanie Fritsch is currently Junior professor for Media and Cultural Studies with a focus on Game Studies and related fields at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She is a team member of the Ludomusicology Research Group as well as the speaker team of the AG Games of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft. Further, she is a co-founder of the Society for the Study of Sound and Music in Games and the “Journal of Sound and Music in Games” as well as the AG Spiele (Verband DHd – “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum”). She co-edited the “Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music“ in collaboration with Dr. Tim Summers.