Playful Proceedings

Michel Roth, Lecture
Raphaëlle Proust, Pinball Sampler
Noah Rosen, Pinball Percussion

Lecture recital on the occasion of the release of the website criticalgames.ch (January 2025).

Music is played, games often include music. Can music also be gamified, or is there a ‘musicking’ of play?

Two long-term scientific and artistic research projects have been dedicated to these questions: In January 2023 the interdisciplinary festival SPIEL! Games as Critical Practice with the participation of many ‘players’ from all over the FHNW, and Michel Roth’s Dissertation, a game-theoretical analysis of the musical avant-garde (2012–2022).

On the occasion of the publication of his book and of the scientific report of the SPIEL!-Festival as a gamified website, Michel Roth will reflect on his findings in interaction with a performance of his Pinball Etudes, a cycle of gamified musical studies, premiered by Raphaëlle Proust (Sampler) and Noah Rosen (Percussion), both students at Sonic Space Basel.