Exposition

Composing for the Memory Dealer: New Paradigms for the Immersive Soundtrack (2015)

Alex Kolassa

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The task of producing a score for new experiential types of media and transmedia presents a number of exciting possibilities for the composer. Indeed, the musical experience is a profoundly personal one; deeply held and ideologically informed expectations could risk limiting the role of music in exploratory new pervasive drama pieces to a pseudo-filmic Muzak. Just as the traditional modes of story-telling are rethought and exploded across a new and emergent diegetic plane, the role of music should likewise be radically rethought so as to rewrite its immersive potential. Drawing upon my experience as composer for The Memory Dealer, this article will give critical insight into the collaborative process of both composing and realizing the soundtrack for new emergent, adaptive, and pervasive theatre works. It offers a discussion of my own creative processes and aesthetic concerns as well as an in-depth account of the technological and collaborative realities of this particular project.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsDynamic and adaptive composition, nonlinearity, soundscape, soundwalk, film score, video game score, immersion, dynamic and adaptive composition
date01/05/2015
published07/05/2015
last modified07/05/2015
statuspublished
share statusprivate
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/148789/149253
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue09. Issue 9


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149334 Figure D-theme3 Kolassa All rights reserved
149333 Figure C Kolassa All rights reserved
149332 Figure A-theme1(eve) kolassa All rights reserved
149259 TMD_preludium lander All rights reserved
149256 TMD_Preludium Lander All rights reserved
149102 FigureB-theme2 Kolassa All rights reserved
149101 FigureF-working space Kolassa All rights reserved
148874 AudioObject8 Kolassa All rights reserved
148870 image F - working environment Kolassa All rights reserved
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148858 AudioObject6-transition1 Kolassa All rights reserved
148856 FigureE-transition1 Kolassa All rights reserved
148852 AudioObject5 - Layered composition Kolassa All rights reserved
148848 AudioObject4-theme3 Kolassa All rights reserved
148846 FigureD-Theme3 Kolassa All rights reserved
148842 AudioObject3 - accompaniement 1 Kolassa All rights reserved
148840 FigureC Kolassa All rights reserved
148836 AudioObject2 (1) Kolassa All rights reserved
148833 FigureB - Theme 2 Kolassa All rights reserved
148830 AudioObject1 - Character theme 1 - eve Kolassa All rights reserved
148826 FigureA - theme 1 Kolassa All rights reserved
148793 sonicstudies-banner-964-3 Mannschaft All rights reserved

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