Download or read book Sound Play written by William Cheng and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. 'Sound Play' explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's engagements with audio phenomena in video games - from sonic violence to synthesized operas, from democratic musical performances to verbal sexual harassment.