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Book Sound Play

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Cheng
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-05
  • ISBN : 0199970009
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Sound Play written by William Cheng and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. William Cheng shows how video games empower their designers, composers, players, critics, and scholars to tinker (often transgressively) with practices and discourses of music, noise, speech, and silence. Faced with collisions between utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games, Sound Play synthesizes insights across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications, literary theory, philosophy, and additional disciplines. With case studies spanning Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill, Fallout 3, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Team Fortress 2, this book insists that what we do in there-in the safe, sound spaces of games-can ultimately teach us a great deal about who we are and what we value (musically, culturally, humanly) out here. Foreword by Richard Leppert Video Games Live cover image printed with permission from Tommy Tallarico

Book Paw Patrol Im Ready to Read with Skye

Download or read book Paw Patrol Im Ready to Read with Skye written by Pi Kids and published by p i kids. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time for some ruff-ruff reading! Created for beginner readers, this PAWsome sound book uses simple sentences, large type, and expressive narration to enhance reading comprehension. Press 10 buttons to hear Skye read the pages out loud. Listen and read along to match the spoken and printed words. You're on a roll with PAW Patrol!

Book Playing with Sound

Download or read book Playing with Sound written by Karen Collins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the player's experience of sound in video games and the many ways that players interact with the sonic elements in games. In Playing with Sound, Karen Collins examines video game sound from the player's perspective. She explores the many ways that players interact with a game's sonic aspects—which include not only music but also sound effects, ambient sound, dialogue, and interface sounds—both within and outside of the game. She investigates the ways that meaning is found, embodied, created, evoked, hacked, remixed, negotiated, and renegotiated by players in the space of interactive sound in games. Drawing on disciplines that range from film studies and philosophy to psychology and computer science, Collins develops a theory of interactive sound experience that distinguishes between interacting with sound and simply listening without interacting. Her conceptual approach combines practice theory (which focuses on productive and consumptive practices around media) and embodied cognition (which holds that our understanding of the world is shaped by our physical interaction with it). Collins investigates the multimodal experience of sound, image, and touch in games; the role of interactive sound in creating an emotional experience through immersion and identification with the game character; the ways in which sound acts as a mediator for a variety of performative activities; and embodied interactions with sound beyond the game, including machinima, chip-tunes, circuit bending, and other practices that use elements from games in sonic performances.

Book Dora s Hot Air Balloon Adventure

Download or read book Dora s Hot Air Balloon Adventure written by Nicole Sulgit and published by PIL Kids. This book was released on 2010 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video Play-a-Sound book has a built-in video screen that brings sounds to life! It features favorite characters in stories with fun sounds and animations, 18 triggers on 24 pages.

Book I m Ready to Read with Minnie

Download or read book I m Ready to Read with Minnie written by Renee Tawa and published by Play-A-Sound. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnie Mouse bakes treats for her friends.

Book Play Day  The Sound of Long a

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alice K Flanagan
  • Publisher : Amicus Ink
  • Release : 2024-01-09
  • ISBN : 9781645498711
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Play Day The Sound of Long a written by Alice K Flanagan and published by Amicus Ink. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining story about playing, using repetition of the letter "a", helps readers learn how to use the "long a" sound. Large type, vivid full-page color photos, and a word list all aid in developing phonics reading skills. Part of the Phonics Fun! series, this title will help children learn the relationships between the letters of written language and the individual sounds of spoken language. Controlled vocabulary, engaging decodable text, and vibrant photographs help young readers learn individual letter sounds. An explanatory note to parents and educators, as well as an introduction to the author, are also included. Help young readers begin a lifelong love of reading!

Book Dora the Explorer 3 Book Play a Sound Set

Download or read book Dora the Explorer 3 Book Play a Sound Set written by Publications International, Limited and published by Publications International. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snap the sound strip on to any of the 3 books and read the story or lyrics and press the buttons to hear great songs and sounds. The sound strip plays 5 unique sounds for each book!

Book Let s Play   The Sound of Ay

Download or read book Let s Play The Sound of Ay written by Jody Jensen Shaffer and published by Vowel Blends. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emergent readers will learn to recognize vowel blends through short sentences and full-color photographs that illustrate the vowel blended word used in the sentence.

Book Shrek 2

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Shrek 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sound Play

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Cheng
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0199969973
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Sound Play written by William Cheng and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and impunity. Or does it? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of our engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonic violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. Author William Cheng shows how the simulated environments of games empower designers, composers, players, and scholars to test and tinker with music, noise, speech, and silence in ways that might not be prudent or possible in the real world. In negotiating utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games, Sound Play synthesizes insights from across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications, literary theory, and philosophy. With case studies that span Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill, Fallout 3, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Team Fortress 2, this book insists that what we do in there - in the safe, sound spaces of games - can ultimately teach us a great deal about who we are and what we value (musically, culturally, humanly) out here.

Book Creative Sound Play for Young Learners

Download or read book Creative Sound Play for Young Learners written by Hayes Greenfield and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fun and engaging guide invites you to use sound-making as a collaborative, play-based practice in your early childhood classroom—first to transform tricky transition times and ultimately to support your children’s executive functioning development and social-emotional learning. The book offers techniques and ideas for every teacher to reach every child in their classroom including verbal, nonverbal, and special needs children. Easy to integrate into all standard early years curricula, it focuses on three basic elements of sound: pitch, volume, and duration. The book features an "overview of the school year" calendar and an implementation guide, in addition to a variety of suggested sound-making activities that start out simply and, through the course of the book, expand to engage children’s creativity in more dynamic ways. Creative Sound Play for Young Learners is key reading for any preschool teacher, leader, or parent.

Book Sound and the Aesthetics of Play

Download or read book Sound and the Aesthetics of Play written by Justin Christensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interdisciplinary project that brings together ideas from aesthetics, philosophy, psychology, and music sociology as an expansion of German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer’s theory on the aesthetics of play. This way of thinking focuses on an ontology of the process of musicking rather than an ontology of discovering fixed and static musical objects. In line with this idea, the author discusses the importance of participation and involvement in this process of musicking, whether as a listener or as a performer. Christensen then goes on to critique and update Gadamer's theory by presenting incompatibilities between it and recent theories of aesthetic emotions and embodiment. He proposes that emotions are ‘constructed’ rather than ‘caused’, that the mind uses a system of ‘filters’ to respond to sonic stimuli and thus constructs (via play) aesthetic feelings and experiences. In turn, this approach provides music with a route into the development of social capital and inter-subjective communication. This work builds on the hermeneutical steps already taken by Gadamer and those before him, continuing his line of thought beyond his work. It will be of great interest to scholars in music aesthetics as well as a variety of other music related fields, including music psychology, philosophy and science and technology studies.

Book Word Play in the Don Quixote

Download or read book Word Play in the Don Quixote written by Ames Haven Corley and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Integrated Play based Curriculum for Young Children

Download or read book An Integrated Play based Curriculum for Young Children written by Olivia N. Saracho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play provides young children with the opportunity to express their ideas, symbolize, and test their knowledge of the world. It provides the basis for inquiry in literacy, science, social studies, mathematics, art, music, and movement. Through play, young children become active learners engaged in explorations about themselves, their community, and their personal-social world. An Integrated Play-Based Curriculum for Young Children offers the theoretical framework for understanding the origins of an early childhood play-based curriculum and how young children learn and understand concepts in a social and physical environment. Distinguished author Olivia N. Saracho then explores how play fits into various curriculum areas in order to help teachers develop their early childhood curriculum using developmentally and culturally appropriate practice. Through this integrated approach, young children are able to actively engage in meaningful and functional experiences in their natural context. Special Features Include: Vignettes of children’s conversations and actions in the classroom Suggestions for activities and classroom materials Practical examples and guidelines End-of-chapter summaries to enhance and extend the reader’s understanding of young children By presenting appropriate theoretical practices for designing and implementing a play-based curriculum, An Integrated Play-Based Curriculum for Young Children offers pre-service teachers the foundational knowledge about the field, about the work that practitioners do with young children, and how to best assume a teacher’s role effectively.

Book Here s How to do Early Intervention for Speech and Language

Download or read book Here s How to do Early Intervention for Speech and Language written by Karyn Lewis Searcy and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Game Audio Tutorial

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Stevens
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2013-05-02
  • ISBN : 113612702X
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book The Game Audio Tutorial written by Richard Stevens and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design and implement video game sound from beginning to end with this hands-on course in game audio. Music and sound effects speak to players on a deep level, and this book will show you how to design and implement powerful, interactive sound that measurably improves gameplay. If you are a sound designer or composer and want to do more than just create audio elements and hand them over to someone else for insertion into the game, this book is for you. You'll understand the game development process and implement vital audio experiences-not just create music loops or one-off sound effects. The Game Audio Tutorial isn't just a book-you also get a powerful website (www.thegameaudiotutorial.com)

Book Toy Story

    Book Details:
  • Author : Publications International
  • Publisher : PIL Kids
  • Release : 2009-08-20
  • ISBN : 9781412775854
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book Toy Story written by Publications International and published by PIL Kids. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play-a-Sound: Toy Story follows Woody and Buzz Lightyear as they try to make their way back to their owner, Andy. Along the way, they find friendship. This interactive storybook, from the popular Play-a-Sound series, features ten sound buttons for children to push to enhance the story with sounds and music from the Disney/Pixar movie Toy Story.