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The Soundtrack 11.1&2 is now available! 

Special Issue: ‘Musical Disruption in Video Games: Player, Sound and Immersion’

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Aims & Scope

The Soundtrack is a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in the area of music and sound in relation to film and other moving image media. A complex cultural, technological, industrial and artistic phenomenon, sound-with-moving image is a rich area for analysis, investigation and speculation. The journal's aim is to nurture an expanding area of academic investigation, in dialogue with soundtrack producers of all kinds.

Issue 11.1&2

Editorial

STEPHANIE LIND

Articles

Not suitable for the easily disturbed: Sonic nonlinearity and disruptive horror in Doki Doki Literature Club!

SARA BOWDEN

Hail the nightmare: Music, sound and materiality in Bloodborne

ALEXANDER KOLASSA

‘Listen to the atmosphere!’: On spectator sounds and their potentially disruptive role in a football simulation video game

NICOLAI JØRGENSGAARD GRAAKJÆR

Music as temporal disruption in Assassin’s Creed

STEPHANIE LIND

Vocal disruptions in the aural game world: The female entertainer in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Transistor and Divinity: Original Sin II

JENNIFER SMITH

Rewind, revisit, relisten: Transport, spatial displacement and mixtape environments in Small Radios Big Televisions

KATE GALLOWAY