Here’s an audio piece that I recorded and mixed as a meme. On a previous post I tried to identify my meme and came up with this: “my meme really has to do with the feedback between critical and cultural reception of games as rhetoric and the creation of intentionally rhetorical (through the rules of their systems) games.” While this piece doesn’t exactly do that, it does deal with another of my interests, which is to find ways to engage creatively with the environments, interfaces, and rules that make up the games we play.

I stumbled upon an idea that I had been discussing with a friend that represented this and took it a step further by critiquing so-called “rhythm” games. This genre of videogames usually involves trying to match visual cues on the screen that correspond to the beat or melodic parts of a song. It is impossible to play the game Guitar Hero without hearing the clickity-click of the specialized guitar controller that comes with the game, but most of the time you don’t listen to it. It occurred to me that it is making it’s own music; this is my first attempt at recording and arranging this sound.