PhD thesis

Ludomusicological Semiotics: Theory, Implications and Case Studies
The University of Sydney, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 2017
Link to thesis: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17883.

Publications

“Winifred Phillips: Emotional resonance and social eloquence”
Chapter in Women’s Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound, edited by Felicity Wilcox, 164–76. Routledge Music and Screen Media Series. New York: Routledge, 2021. doi: 10.4324/9780429264924-14.
Link to chapter: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429264924-14

“Semiotics in Game Music”
Chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music, edited by Melanie Fritsch and Tim Summers, 220–37. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. doi:10.1017/9781108670289.015.
Link to chapter: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108670289.015

“Meaningful Play: Performativity, Interactivity and Semiotics in Video Game Music”
Musicology Australia, volume 36, number 2, December 2014, pp. 273–290. doi: 10.1080/08145857.2014.958272
Link to article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08145857.2014.958272
Downloadable version here: Iain Hart – Meaningful Play – Accepted Manuscript version

“Hard Boiled Music: The Case of L.A. Noire“
Screen Sound: The Australasian Journal of Soundtrack Studies, number 5, 2015, pp. 19–35
Link to article: http://www.screensoundjournal.org/issues/n5/06.%20SSJ%20n5%20Hart.pdf

Conference papers

“Meaningful play: A performative analysis of video game music”

• Performative Voices: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Music Research, University of South Australia, 1–2 December 2012
• Ludo2013 Easter Conference, University of Liverpool, 12–13 April 2013
• Music and the Moving Image Conference, New York University, 31 May–2 June 2013

“Hard-boiled music: The case of L.A. Noire“

• Music and metamorphosis: Joint conferences of the MSA and NZMS, Griffith University, 18–22 November 2013
• North American Conference on Video Game Music, Youngstown State University, 18–19 January 2014

“Massively multi-musical: the diverse musical experiences of EVE Online“

• Ludo2014, University of Chichester (via Skype), 10–12 April 2014

Blog posts

“Creativity in abstraction: beyond the film/game parallel”
Guest blog post on Ludomusicology.org, 3 December 2013, http://www.ludomusicology.org/2013/12/03/creativity-abstraction-beyond-filmgame-parallel

Associations

Society for the Study of Sound and Music in Games — Board member
Journal of Sound and Music in Games — Editorial board member
Musicological Society of Australia
Ludomusicology Society of Australia

ORCiD

Google Scholar profile

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=VEP-2vQAAAAJ&hl=en