Call for Presentations
North American Conference on Video Game Music
Deadline: February 5, 2021
Conference Dates: June 12–13, 2021
Conference Venue: Virtual
Scholars are invited to submit proposals for the eighth North American Conference on Video Game Music, which will take place June 12–13, 2021 and will be online.
This year, there will be no charge for attendees or presenters for the virtual conference.
The keynote speaker for this year’s conference will be Austin Wintory.
We are soliciting proposals for presentations on any aspect of music in games, including, but not limited to:
Additional information regarding the conference:
For further information, please feel free to write to nacvgm@gmail.com, or visit the NACVGM conference website (https://vgmconference.weebly.com/).
Virtual Recital Performance
North American Conference on Video Game Music
Deadline: February 5, 2021
Recital Date: June 12, 2021
Recital Venue: Virtual, Pre-recorded
The NACVGM conference committee is excited to announce a virtual, pre-recorded video game music recital in conjunction with the NACVGM 8 conference. The recital will take place on the evening of Saturday June 12, 2021.
We are soliciting proposals for 5–7-minute performances of game audio or game inspired music at NACVGM 8. The approximately 60-minute recital will be free to conference attendees and may be made available on the NACVGM YouTube channel with the performer’s permission.
We aim to program a diverse recital 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 nacvgm@gmail.com by February 5, 2021 with the following information:
For further information, please feel free to write to nacvgm@gmail.com, or visit the NACVGM conference website.
The conference organizing and program committee consists of:
Pete Smucker (program chair, Stetson University)
Jim Buhler (UT Austin)
Karen M. Cook (University of Hartford)
Neil Lerner (Davidson College)
Elizabeth Medina-Gray (Ithaca College)
Dana Plank (The Ohio State University)
Matthew Thompson (University of Michigan)
Ryan Thompson (Michigan State University)
North American Conference on Video Game Music
Deadline: February 5, 2021
Conference Dates: June 12–13, 2021
Conference Venue: Virtual
Scholars are invited to submit proposals for the eighth North American Conference on Video Game Music, which will take place June 12–13, 2021 and will be online.
This year, there will be no charge for attendees or presenters for the virtual conference.
The keynote speaker for this year’s conference will be Austin Wintory.
We are soliciting proposals for presentations on any aspect of music in games, including, but not limited to:
- The history of music in video games
- Approaches to analyzing game music
- Intersections of game music and other media (film, TV, etc.)
- Critical and/or hermeneutic approaches to game music
- Case studies of specific games
- Game music and pedagogy
- Ethnographic approaches to game music
- Performance of game music inside and outside of games
Additional information regarding the conference:
- 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 affiliation (if applicable), contact information, title of your paper, and whether you prefer a 20-minute or 10-minute presentation.
- Email proposals to nacvgm@gmail.com by February 5, 2021. Successful candidates will be notified on or around April 1, 2021.
For further information, please feel free to write to nacvgm@gmail.com, or visit the NACVGM conference website (https://vgmconference.weebly.com/).
Virtual Recital Performance
North American Conference on Video Game Music
Deadline: February 5, 2021
Recital Date: June 12, 2021
Recital Venue: Virtual, Pre-recorded
The NACVGM conference committee is excited to announce a virtual, pre-recorded video game music recital in conjunction with the NACVGM 8 conference. The recital will take place on the evening of Saturday June 12, 2021.
We are soliciting proposals for 5–7-minute performances of game audio or game inspired music at NACVGM 8. The approximately 60-minute recital will be free to conference attendees and may be made available on the NACVGM YouTube channel with the performer’s permission.
We aim to program a diverse recital 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 nacvgm@gmail.com by February 5, 2021 with the following information:
- In the body of an e-mail, 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 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 April 1, 2021.
For further information, please feel free to write to nacvgm@gmail.com, or visit the NACVGM conference website.
The conference organizing and program committee consists of:
Pete Smucker (program chair, Stetson University)
Jim Buhler (UT Austin)
Karen M. Cook (University of Hartford)
Neil Lerner (Davidson College)
Elizabeth Medina-Gray (Ithaca College)
Dana Plank (The Ohio State University)
Matthew Thompson (University of Michigan)
Ryan Thompson (Michigan State University)
