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Benjamin Jörissen

Osu, ugoku, ureshii. Elektronische Spiele in Japan - 0 views

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    Osu, ugoku, ureshii. Elektronische Spiele in Japan Volker Grassmuck für Stanca Scholz-Cionca (Hrsg.) "Japan, Reich der Spiele" Iudicium Verlag, München 1998
Benjamin Jörissen

Just Add Performance - Kiri Miller / Brown University | - 0 views

  • My standard strategy for explaining my research to those caught up in the effects debate is to point out that playing these games isn’t just like playing real instruments, but it’s nothing at all like just listening to music. It’s a third thing, a new way of musicking.
  • you reconstitute instant soup by adding water, and you reconstitute a recorded song by adding performance
  • I want to suggest that the most important value-added aspect is the potential for performance
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  • everyone I’ve interviewed for my research reports that the games have substantially changed the way they listen to popular music when they’re not playing
  • value-reconstituted
  • Players become live performers of pre-recorded songs, a phenomenon that I call schizophonic performance.
  • But players aren’t deluded; they’re quick to point out that they understand the difference between playing instruments and playing Guitar Hero.
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      Because they have their bodies involved into musical experience.
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