Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- About the contributors -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1 Industries and synergies -- 1 The new MTV? Electronic Arts and 'playing' music -- 2 Marketing music through computer games: the case of Poets of the Fall and Max Payne 2 -- PART 2 Ringtones and mobile phones -- 3 Could ringtones be more annoying? -- 4 Indeterminate adaptive digital audio for games on mobiles -- PART 3 Instruments and interactions -- 5 Theoretical approaches to composing dynamic music for video games -- 6 Realizing groundbreaking adaptive music -- 7 The composition-instrument: emergence, improvisation and interaction in games and new media -- PART 4 Techniques and technologies -- 8 Dynamic range: subtlety and silence in video game sound -- 9 An introduction to granular synthesis in video games -- PART 5 Audio and audience -- 10 Chip music: low-tech data music sharing -- 11 Left in the dark: playing computer games with the sound turned off -- 12 Music theory in music games -- Selected Annotated Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index.