![]() The researchers in the group – Kai Tuuri, Oskari Koskela, Jukka Vahlo and Heli Tissari –approach the same topic from different perspectives and backgrounds: musicology, folklore studies, game studies and linguistics. Memories and their verbalisation adds another dimension to the research. The music of computer games has not been studied very much, even in the field of game studies. ![]() Memories of games live on in our language ![]() The most startling of these experiences can even be said to have led to life-changing or life-saving moments. This multidisciplinary research explores the meanings people give to games’ soundscapes and their descriptions of their memories of them. Started at the beginning of 2020, the three-year project Game Music Everyday Memories (GAMEM) explores the experience and meanings of digital games through cherished memories of music. In an instant, game music seems to fill your mind, and in your mind’s eye you see a perfect day from decades ago. Many of us have at least some experience of video game music, if not from recent years, at least from hazy recollections of childhood days.ĭiving into these memories may cause an emotional reaction which can be surprisingly strong sometimes. ![]() The double jackpot sound of an arcade games machine set next to the magazine shelves of a service station, the cacophonous sound of racing simulators in a dimly-lit arcade, or the immortal theme of the Bubble Bobble computer game you played with your best friend on the desk under his loft bed. The personal and private meanings of gaming have surprised the multidisciplinary team of researchers. Nostalgia full of beeping and pixels rules in the world of digital games for adults. ![]()
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