Call for Presentations: North American Conference on Video Game Music 2024
Featuring keynote speaker Laura Intravia
Deadline: November 30, 2023
Conference Dates: March 16-17, 2024
Conference Venue: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
(with option to attend and present virtually)
Scholars are invited to submit proposals for the eleventh North American Conference on Video Game Music, which will take place March 16–17, 2024 at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The conference organizing and program committee is composed of Dana Plank (program chair, independent scholar), Ryan Thompson (host, Michigan State University), Jim Buhler (UT Austin), Karen M. Cook (University of Hartford), Julianne Grasso (Florida State University), Neil Lerner (Davidson College), Elizabeth Medina-Gray (Ithaca College), Pete Smucker (Stetson University), and Matthew Thompson (University of Michigan).
We are soliciting proposals for presentations on any aspect of music and/or sound in games, including, but not limited to:
- The history of music and/or sound in games
- Approaches to analyzing game music and/or sound
- Intersections of game music and/or other media (film, TV, etc.)
- Critical and/or hermeneutic approaches
- Case studies of specific games
- Game music and/or sound and pedogogy
- Ethnographic approaches
- Performance of game music and/or sound inside and outside of games
- Intersections of game music and/or sound, identity, and social justice
Additional information regarding conference papers:
- Papers can be either:
- Twenty minutes in length (with an additional ten minutes for discussion)
- Ten minutes in length (with an additional five minutes for discussion)
- Papers can be delivered either live or as a pre-recorded video
- Proposals are limited to 250 words and should include the title of the paper, but should otherwise include no identifying information, including metadata
- Please provide appropriate, robust content or trigger warnings in the body of your proposal if your talk will contain sensitive material
- In the body of an e-mail, include your name, institutional affilation (if applicable), contact information, and the title of your paper.
- Email proposals to [email protected] by November 30, 2023. Successful candidates will be notified on or around January 15, 2024.
For further information, please feel free to write to [email protected], or visit the conference website at nacvgm.org
Recital Performance
The NACVGM Conference Committee will host a recital of video game music in conjunction with the NACVGM 2024 conference.
The recital will take place on the evening of Saturday, March 16th, 2024.
We are soliciting proposals for 5–7-minute performances of game audio or game inspired music. The approximately 90-minutes recital will be free to conference attendees and performances may be made available on the NACVGM YouTube channel with the performers’ permission.
We aim to program a diverse concert of musical styles relating to video game audio. The music may be inspired by video games or game audio, or a direct/close recreation from music within a game.
Interested performers should send an email with a subject line of “NACVGM concert” to [email protected] by November 30, 2023 containing the following information:
- In the body of the email, include your name(s), instrument(s), institutional affiliation (if applicable), contact information, and the title and timing of your piece(s),
- The piece must not exceed seven (7) minutes.
- A short biography that describes you/your performance background in game audio. In the event of an ensemble, include information for each member of the ensemble or a collective biography, if more appropriate.
- Links to performance samples (YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify). In-email audio files may be submitted as well, but the email should be limited in size to ~10 MB or less.
- Please indicate if the submitted sample is the performance intended for the recital, or a sample of representative work similar to the intended recital performance.
- Selected performers will be notified on or around January 15, 2024.
For further information, please feel free to write to [email protected] or visit the conference website at nacvgm.org.