This is a library/wiki/community dedicated to music games (aka gamepieces).
Music games
What is a "music game"? — A set of rules that control players to spontaneously create music. Usually great fun!
In the area of music games you can find many influences and approaches, from experimental music, board game design, theatre improv, pedagogy and others. Every one is welcome here. We believe that music games can be much more popular if there was a central place to find, learn about, and even collectively create them. Hence 'Games For Music.'
What happens here
Communities like this can not thrive and continue without you. So please have a look around. Try out some games. Ask questions, give suggestions or start discussions. We'd love for you to contribute some games you have created. Everything else is also editable for all members.
Membership is free. We don't have a plan to directly or prohibitively monetize this page (if you see an ad, it's from wikidot itself, and ads are not shown to logged in users, so the more worth creating the account! ;) ). Hopefully the page will be useful to all who would like to promote their topically related events or creations. We will be working on this community daily, building it up to be the greatest, central hub for music games.
The beginnings
'Games For Music' was created in March 2018 by two music game designers (odolany & notrightmusic) who are both active in setting up music game meetings (right now you can participate in these if you are in Poland or USA, Pennsylvania). In the early stages of the page, historical entries in the library were filled thanks to the help of Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen from International Improvised Music Archive.
Using Games for Music
You can check how to use this site or jump straight to almost all of our contents:
- About G4M
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Articles
- BCG
- Bibliography
- Board Game Mechanics for Music
- Body Percussion
- Conducting in Music Games
- Frederic Rzewski, Les Moutons de Panurge
- Games of John Zorn
- How to "Games for Music"
- How to Set Up a Music Game Meeting
- Improvisational theatre and music games
- Improvised Music - Open Scores
- Math for Music Games
- Music Gaming - theory bit (Caillois)
- Online Music Games (OMG)
- People
- Struggles: video collection
- Synzine magazine
- Terry Riley: In C
- Tonic (Card Set)
- What is good music?
- Events
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Games library
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Free Form
- 3-split
- Dice Contract
- Diced Events
- Djent Game
- Draw It Yourself
- Entitled Piece
- Event Lists Game Template
- Evolution of music
- Fairy Tale
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Fluxfestkit Legacy
- 10. George Brecht, For a Drummer (for Eric) (1966)
- 11. Henning Christiansen, Audience Eve (1964)
- 12. Jed Curtis, Opus 1
- 13. Luce Fierens, Possible Flux Performance or Postfluxgame (1987)
- 14. Albert M. Fine, Concerto for Solo Piano and Performer
- 15. Ken Friedman, Whoop Event (1964)
- 16. Ken Friedman, Zen Vaudeville (1966)
- 17. Dick Higgins, Danger Music Number Twelve (1962)
- 18. Dick Higgins, Danger Music Number Seventeen (1962)
- 19. Davi Det Hompson, There’s Music in My Shoes (1972)
- 1. Eric Andersen, Opus 25 (1961)
- 20. Bengt af Klintberg, Calls, Canto 5 (1966)
- 21. Bengt af Klintberg, Calls, Canto 6 (1966)
- 22. Milan Knizak, Lying Ceremony (1968)
- 23. Alison Knowles, Proposition (1962)
- 24. Alison Knowles, Piece for Any Number of Vocalists (1962)
- 25. Takehisa Kosugi, Organic Music (1963)
- 26. Bob Lens, Bottle of water
- 27. George Maciunas, Solo for Conductor (1965)
- 28. Richard Maxfield, Mechanical Fluxconcert
- 29. Larry Miller, Mud Drop (1969)
- 2. Eric Andersen, Opus 27 (1961)
- 30. Larry Miller, 100 Yard Metronome Run (1970)
- 31. Larry Miller, 220 Yard Balloon Dash (1970)
- 32. Yoko Ono, Lighting Piece (1955)
- 33. Nam June Paik, Prelude
- 34. Willem de Ridder, Dressing (1963)
- 35. Tomas Schmit, Sanitas No.35
- 36. Mieko Shiomi, Shadow Piece (1963)
- 37. Mieko Shiomi, Event for the Late Afternoon (1963)
- 38. Mieko Shiomi, Air Event (1964)
- 39. Ben Vautier, Nothing (1962)
- 3. Ay-O, Rainbow No.1 for Orchestra
- 40. Ben Vautier, Run (1963)
- 4. Ay-O, Rainbow No.2 for Orchestra
- 5. Don Boyd, A Performance Calendar, March (1989)
- 6. Robert Bozzi, A Piece for Chieko Shiomi (1966)
- 7. Robert Bozzi, Choice 10 (1966)
- 8. George Brecht, Drip Music (1959)
- 9. George Brecht, Symphony No.3, Fluxversion 1 (1964)
- Follow the Images
- Melody-Go-Round
- Mood Guessing
- Movement for Ears
- Nightlife of Machines
- Pass-the-sound
- Room Score
- Stones
- The Impersonator
- This Instrument is Not What it Seems
- Trading Fours Battle
- Two-headed Soloist
- Listening
- Tags
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Well Defined
- 15 Cards
- Agents
- Animal Sounds
- Apocalypse
- Attack of the Rhythm Dancer
- Bees
- CCQR133
- Circle of 5
- CMH-CR135
- Conductor's Remote
- Convergent Ostinato
- Counterpoint Party
- Democratic Chord Writing
- Game Over
- Hand Piece (With Memory Function)
- Into the Labyrinth
- Loop Cycle
- MPIR106
- Musical Tetris
- Musical Tetris, lvl 1
- Mutual Prescriptions series
- Perception 4
- Polyfill
- P-S-Rock
- Sea-game game
- Sound Collage Game Board
- Staircase
- Stay In Character
- SyndaKit
- Textmusic 3
- The Audition
- Travel Routes
- Volume Waves
- Where Are We?
- Winking Murderer: The Musical
- YouTube
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Free Form
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Glossary
- Ad libitum
- Agenda
- Aleatoricism
- Aspect
- Balance
- Bartle types
- Constellation
- Co-optionality
- Cue cards
- Dice
- Dimension
- Downtime
- Emergence
- End Condition
- Event
- Extended technique
- Fighting
- First Rule Of Music Games
- Found Sound
- Genre
- Goals
- Horizon of intent
- Insert game
- Inspire cards
- Karaoke
- King-making
- Learning curve
- Ludomusical dissonance
- Mechanic
- Music game
- Non-idiomatic music
- Open work
- Parameter
- Pervasive Game
- Preparation
- Psychographics
- Quarterbacking
- Roles
- RPG
- Rule Cards
- Skill ceiling
- Skill floor
- Speedrun
- Stacking
- Trading
- Transition
- Upgrade
- Using event lists
- Victory condition
- Win condition
- Xenochrony
- XP
- Yes And
- Wiki contributions
