Musica per videogiochi

Presentation of the book Music for video games. The Birth of Light Music and the Myth by Koji Kondo (Edizioni Dedalo, 2024): a new and exciting conversation about the power of music that connects us to infinite dimensions, from video games to our story, fantasy and soul.Video game music has long been regarded as little more than a sound outline of an entertainment product. This book, for the first time in Italy, highlights the elements that distinguish game music, telling its technical and creative challenges, its connection with technologies and its incredible impact on the psyche, society and market. Interviews with leading international figures in the gaming industry offer the reader a direct look at the cultural and professional horizons related to video game music, a true form of art, whose analysis needs a new musicology, Specifically called ludomusicology. Through a rigorous lens two of the most famous video game music, Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda, works by the brilliant Japanese composer Koji Kondo.

Moderates the meeting Marco Testoni, Soundtrack City - Colonnesonore.net