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Karen Collins

Karen Collins is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of ten books on sound, including Game Sound and Playing with Sound (both published by the MIT Press), and is the director of the film Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound.

Books by Karen Collins

Studying Sound

A Theory and Practice of Sound Design

by (author) Karen Collins

The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio

edited by Karen Collins, Bill Kapralos & Holly Tessler

Playing with Sound

A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games

by (author) Karen Collins

Before the Crash

Early Video Game History

contributions by Mark J.P. Wolf, Jessica Aldred, Ralph H. Baer, Brett Camper, Karen Collins, Ross A. Dannenberg, Leonard Herman, Erkki Huhtamo, Carly A. Kocurek, Sheila C. Murphy, Ed Rotberg, Tim Skelly, Carl Therrien, Staci Tucker & Zach Whalen

Game Sound

An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design

by (author) Karen Collins