VGM SURVEY: Help the University of Wisconsin-Madison!

[Liontamer]

GAME MUSIC SURVEY: Help OC ReMix & the University of Wisconsin-Madison!

Hey guys,

If you enjoy game music enough to take a quick survey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=HFyUHjM0BHA8lH_2b_2bgR2j5Q_3d_3d), your answers will help University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Chris Russell for his ethnographical study of OC ReMix and game music fans like you!

The survey is brief, asking about your favorite game music, composers, thoughts on being a musician (if you are one), as well as where you fit into the OC ReMix community. If you're not a musician, just fill in "N/A" (not applicable) for any questions you don't need to answer. If you're a lurker or long-time holdout, it's OK; share your answers on game music, and swing by http://www.ocremix.org again! 1,600 ReMixes strong, and we're still free.

If your responses are good, your answers may be quoted in Chris's ethnographical study of OC ReMix, both in his paper as well as his presentation at next month's Art of Record Production conference!

Now Chris is going to hijack my message to tell you a little bit more. Have fun answering the survey, and thanks as always for listening to our community's music and supporting OC ReMix!

Larry "Liontamer" Oji
Assistant Soundtrack Director, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Head Submissions Evaluator, OverClocked ReMix - http://www.ocremix.org
Creator, VG Frequency - http://www.vgfrequency.com
Staff, VGMdb - http://www.vgmdb.net

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Hi everyone -

My name is Chris Russell, a graduate student in Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In about a month, I will be presenting a paper about OC ReMix at the Art of Record Production Conference, a joint academic/industry conference in Lowell, Massachusetts. I'm hoping to ask you all, the OC ReMix community, to help me represent you at this conference by taking a brief survey.

The survey should take no longer than 20-30 minutes, and is intended for all members of the community - whether you've got a ReMix up on the site or not. Please take a moment to assist me in this endeavor.

The survey is available at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=HFyUHjM0BHA8lH_2b_2bgR2j5Q_3d_3d

Thanks in advance for your time.

Chris Russell
Master's Candidate in Music Theory
Department of Music
University of Wisconsin - Madison

[WillRock]

I have completed the survey. I hope my participation is useful in some way.

[big giant circles]

I just took it. Are we allowed to post our answers? :tomatoface:

I actually enjoyed the survey actually. Even though all the "What/Who's your favorite ___________?" questions were hard to answer, it was still fun.

[Rozovian]

Took it. Surprisingly short.

We better get to see the results of it, the paper, or else...!

[Liontamer]

I just took it. Are we allowed to post our answers? :tomatoface:

You punk, pointing out the conflict of interest!

Fine, fine, favorites away. This is the only context where y'all can do it. Don't be pushing it though or tomato in your face! :tomatoface:

[OA]

Don't be pushing it though or tomato in your face! :tomatoface:

Favorite Judge: Liontamer



(I took the survey too)

[Less Ashamed Of Self]

Survey'd.

I feel dirty.

[Triad Orion]

I took it too. ...I want to read that paper when he's done with it, because I'm curious as to what the academic world might have to say about OC ReMix.

[jmr]

Just finished it.
Like the others here, I'm interested in seeing how this survey data is used. Hopefully Chris can post his final paper here.

[big giant circles]

Toyota Disco.

[SirChadlyOC]

I didn't know how to answer the question, "What is your favorite ReMix?" I've always been discouraged from that line of thinking. :<

[djpretzel]

I didn't know how to answer the question, "What is your favorite ReMix?" I've always been discouraged from that line of thinking. :<

I was going to ask to have that question removed; I don't see the relevance to the topic of the paper, and I don't really want the results posted here as some sort of a popularity contest. Larry gave the green light, so I blame him - this is what happens when you delegate :nicework:

Kidding aside, I do encourage skipping this specific question.

[Roth]

Is it possible that someone like myself can attend this conference? Is it open to the public?
Hopefully so because I practically live in Lowell, MA. :<

Also, can we retake the survey? I rushed through it, and I might want to add some things.

// Roth

[Ski]

I took it, glad to help you guys out!

Will we be able to see the paper when it's done?

[FiremanJoe]

Done and done. There didn't seem to be many quantitative questions, so I'll be interested to see how this is collated.

[Hale-Bopp]

Took the survey. I didn't realize before the email I got that someone just 15 minutes away from me was writing something up about the site. Small world!

[Liontamer]

I was going to ask to have that question removed; I don't see the relevance to the topic of the paper, and I don't really want the results posted here as some sort of a popularity contest. Larry gave the green light, so I blame him - this is what happens when you delegate :nicework:

Kidding aside, I do encourage skipping this specific question.

Aside from aggregating the results to somehow "conclude" the best mix evar (which doesn't seem practical), it's fine. It could be used to see if there's actually been any sort of leaning toward a particular track, game, game series, original composer or ReMixer given how many ReMixes are hosted and how many contributors are in the community. Obviously we'll let Chris know, but for the purposes of actually conducting a study of the community, it seems fair game. I think, whatever the results are, they'll actually show off that there is no commonly agreed "best mix".

[OverCoat]

I filled out your little survey :3 hopefully it'll help

[kitty]

I listed a "favorite" ReMix but only on the basis of how many listens I have accrued on it; and then I mentioned how I really can't pick a favorite.

[Lyrai]

I AM HELPING I AM HELPING.
I also basically went with "which one have I listened to the most" for the 'best remix' question, despite there being a ton of them that are awesome.

[Ronyn]

survey monkey says no such link, site down maybe? Try again tomorrow...

[big giant circles]

I was going to ask to have that question removed; I don't see the relevance to the topic of the paper, and I don't really want the results posted here as some sort of a popularity contest. Larry gave the green light, so I blame him - this is what happens when you delegate :nicework:

Kidding aside, I do encourage skipping this specific question.

I was also kidding about posting the results, I thought the tomato face made that clear :P

that being said, my official answer to that question was:

These questions are terrible. You get a giant mad face.
>:(
I'll tell you what, I'll list some of the remixers who have arranged some of my favorite remixes. In no particular order, [r3m1x0rz]

Also, don't take that literally. I didn't think the questions were terrible. You'd have to see my responses to other questions first I suppose to see that I was jesting.

[Liontamer]

survey monkey says no such link, site down maybe? Try again tomorrow...

I got an email from Bloomer (http://www.ocremix.org/remixer/bloomer/) about that issue too. It still worked for me though, so perhaps try now.

[OverCoat]

I stuck it to the man and listed my current favourite remix :P

[BardicKnowledge]

I picked one remix, and one track from an OCR album. Sucks to have to choose though. I think searching for a leaning towards genre / title will be interesting. For instance, does # of remixes a game have correlate with the favorite mix here?

In other words, more Terra & Ice Cap kthxbye. :tomatoface: </sarcasm>

[dsx100]

I took the survey. Found some of the questions interesting.

I honestly don't see whats so wrong with having a favorite remix. Its like asking what's your favorite food or movie. I'm sure for some people its hard to pick just one track from the many greats but others might not find it that difficult. I think its stupid that people shouldn't be allowed to dicuss this because of flaming or other circumstances like the designation of "best mix ever". So what if <insert track here> is your favorite remix. Its your opinion and preference and your entitled to it. Anyone who disgrees can but shouldn't make such a big deal out of it. If your opinion is based on your personal preference then its not worng. Its not like the person is claiming its the "best mix ever" but just simply "my favorite". Also most popular or most picked doesn't always mean best, so I don't see why thats such a big deal.

So basically I'm saying people shouldn't be discouraged from from having a "favorite mix" but it probably is best to "keep it to yourself" based on current circumstances (immature flaming).

[Hobocop]

I also didn't write which is my 'favourite' but that's because I can't really decide. Even if I did write one, I think the selection might be trivial, as my "favourite" is often highly dependent on the circumstances during listening. I find that most songs on this site convey certain atmospheric overtones and it is sometimes difficult for me to listen to some songs in different contexts (I don't know exactly why; maybe due to the melodic emphasis or thematic nature of video game music?).

Anyway, I too find the selection of questions interesting. I am not a student of Music, so I can't fully understand why these questions were chosen. I would probably find it interesting to see the final result as well, so hopefully that becomes available upon completion. I also plan to write an MA thesis on the industry so I would certainly like to see how this precedent shapes up. Good luck!

[Kaden]

I feel dirty with helping for Anything from wisconsin (lived there enough, despise that state) but, I'll help him out, im not cold hearted ALL the time towards WI, just, 99.98% of the time :D lol.

[Jedi QuestMaster]

Yay, this is the only thing I've contributed to OCR, ever! I will now go on sucking up bandwidth like a deprived Metroid. http://www.websitegoodies.com/smilies/evilgrin0039.gif

[The Derrit]

I gave my top 5. Ha.

Anyways I would like to see this paper as well. I wish I could have written questions for that survey cause there was lots of stuff not covered that would be pretty important for a typographical survey like this one.

[Mirby]

There, that was hard picking just one favorite though.