Liontamer Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 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 ---------------------------------------- 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillRock Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I have completed the survey. I hope my participation is useful in some way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big giant circles Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I just took it. Are we allowed to post our answers? I actually enjoyed the survey actually. Even though all the "What/Who's your favorite ___________?" questions were hard to answer, it was still fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozovian Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Took it. Surprisingly short. We better get to see the results of it, the paper, or else...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 I just took it. Are we allowed to post our answers? 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceansAndrew Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Don't be pushing it though or tomato in your face! Favorite Judge: Liontamer (I took the survey too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Less Ashamed Of Self Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Survey'd. I feel dirty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triad Orion Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big giant circles Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Toyota Disco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirChadlyOC Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I didn't know how to answer the question, "What is your favorite ReMix?" I've always been discouraged from that line of thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpretzel Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 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 Kidding aside, I do encourage skipping this specific question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roth Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ski Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I took it, glad to help you guys out! Will we be able to see the paper when it's done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiremanJoe Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Done and done. There didn't seem to be many quantitative questions, so I'll be interested to see how this is collated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hale-Bopp Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 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 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". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I filled out your little survey :3 hopefully it'll help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitty Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyrai Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronyn Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 survey monkey says no such link, site down maybe? Try again tomorrow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big giant circles Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 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 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 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted October 18, 2008 Author Share Posted October 18, 2008 survey monkey says no such link, site down maybe? Try again tomorrow... I got an email from Bloomer about that issue too. It still worked for me though, so perhaps try now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 I stuck it to the man and listed my current favourite remix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BardicKnowledge Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 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. </sarcasm> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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