Pixel Soundtracks: Exploring Video Game Music Through Twenty Games

An accessible guide to video game music, this book covers essential topics for understanding game music-from how games produce chip sounds to the significance of game music in concerts. It explains both technical and cultural aspects, using twenty games as case studies, and sh...

Tim Summers is senior lecturer in music at Royal Holloway University of London. Summers co-founded the European Ludomusicology Research Group and was a founding editor of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games. His books include Understanding Video Game Music, The Queerness of Video Game Music and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - A Game Score Companion. Tim regularly contributes to articles, podcasts and radio programs on the topic of video game music.