November 7, 2007
Music and Gaming Night Recap
The Third Annual UGL Gaming Night was jumped started by a lively panel discussion regarding music composition and design for and with gaming. This year's panel discussion focused around the multiple uses and role of music with gaming technology and within games themselves. Professors Guy Garnett and Stephen Taylor, doctoral student Ben Smith and music composers from local gaming company Voilition Ariel Gross and David Cubberly served as an expert panel. In addition to demonstrating the beta version of "Musiverse," a music composition software built right here at the University of Illinois that utilizes gaming technology and concepts, the panel spoke about the opportunities gaming technology has to both compose music for the sake of composing music and for enriching and designing video games.
Here is a shot of the panel discussion in action:
In addition to the many exciting games from UGL's gaming collection being played by Game Night participants, the Guitar Hero 3 competition drew fierce and talented competitors and fascinated spectators. Winners from the competition were:
First Place: Chad Johnston
Second Place: Yinnong Zheng
Third Place: Luke Yarger
Here are the first and second place winners shredding some plastic guitar (Chad on left, Yinnong on right):
Stay tuned for future gaming events at the Undergrad Library...
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Gaming Night was co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Library and the Sousa Archive and Center for American Music. For more information or questions, please contact David Ward (dh-ward@uiuc.edu ) in the Undergraduate Library.
Posted by undergrad at November 7, 2007 9:26 AM
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