Guitar Hero Guy at Cybersonica 06
‘Interactive Music for the Masses’ lecture in London.
SPOnG will be attending this week’s Cybersonica 06 Festival in London village, mainly to meet and greet the man behind Guitar Hero.
Harmonix Music’s creative director Josh Randall will deliver the keynote 'Interactive Music For The Masses' lecture at Cybersonica, which takes place at the Science Museum this coming Friday. He will also show a brief demo of Guitar Hero 2 and discuss the various possibilities for the future of the series. We will grab him for a few words after his lecture, so if there is anything in particular you want to ask the guitar man, just let us know in the forums below.
Randall's keynote will touch on his experience at Harmonix Music, inevitably looking at some of their leading titles - Frequency, Amplitude, Karaoke Stage, and of course, Guitar Hero - discussing how teams of artists, designers, coders, and musicians all worked together to create these musical videogame experiences.
More generally he will be discussing the role of “...creative expression within the game space, and how new interfaces and controllers are changing the way we interact with our music and TVs”.
The Cybersonica International Festival of Music is now in its fifth year and is billed as “A leading international event for anyone interested in the theory and practice of how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians, DJs, VJs, digital artists, audiovisualisers and creative software developers make and present their work”.
So it clearly makes sense that somebody who has succeeded in bringing guitar playing to the masses (albeit funny plastic guitar playing with big colourful Fisher-Price type buttons) will have something important to contribute.
For more info on Cybersonica, check out the website. SPOnG will bring you the full report as soon as the festival is over this coming Friday.
We'll also be talking to Kelly Sumner about all things Guitar Hero at some point in the very near future. Kelly's a little busy right now, having just successfully sold RedOctane to Activision (cries of 'Sell out!' from the kidz) but as soon as the storm's died down at his end, we'll be getting him on the blower to find out what the plans for RedOctane's future are.
Harmonix Music’s creative director Josh Randall will deliver the keynote 'Interactive Music For The Masses' lecture at Cybersonica, which takes place at the Science Museum this coming Friday. He will also show a brief demo of Guitar Hero 2 and discuss the various possibilities for the future of the series. We will grab him for a few words after his lecture, so if there is anything in particular you want to ask the guitar man, just let us know in the forums below.
Randall's keynote will touch on his experience at Harmonix Music, inevitably looking at some of their leading titles - Frequency, Amplitude, Karaoke Stage, and of course, Guitar Hero - discussing how teams of artists, designers, coders, and musicians all worked together to create these musical videogame experiences.
More generally he will be discussing the role of “...creative expression within the game space, and how new interfaces and controllers are changing the way we interact with our music and TVs”.
The Cybersonica International Festival of Music is now in its fifth year and is billed as “A leading international event for anyone interested in the theory and practice of how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians, DJs, VJs, digital artists, audiovisualisers and creative software developers make and present their work”.
So it clearly makes sense that somebody who has succeeded in bringing guitar playing to the masses (albeit funny plastic guitar playing with big colourful Fisher-Price type buttons) will have something important to contribute.
For more info on Cybersonica, check out the website. SPOnG will bring you the full report as soon as the festival is over this coming Friday.
We'll also be talking to Kelly Sumner about all things Guitar Hero at some point in the very near future. Kelly's a little busy right now, having just successfully sold RedOctane to Activision (cries of 'Sell out!' from the kidz) but as soon as the storm's died down at his end, we'll be getting him on the blower to find out what the plans for RedOctane's future are.
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