Dr. Mack Enns

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Music


Interdisciplinary Research & Creative Practice

Game Scoring

Composition

Music Technology

Music Programming


Dr. Mack Enns is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Music, and is a part of the Creative Media and Practice (CMP) research cluster at HKBU. He primarily researches "game scoring," or music composition for video games, and teaches history and studio courses in this area. Mack enjoys using vintage game consoles and other hardware to 'VJ' or perform visual media in response to live music, and uses these performances to communicate his research on interactive music. He is also interested in game and game score preservation, and is an active participant in online video game emulation development communities. Mack has a book from Routledge coming out in 2021, entitled Understanding Game Scoring, that discusses game scoring as both music composition and software programming.

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Featured Project

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Understanding Game Scoring: The Evolution of Compositional Practice for and Through Gaming

Have you ever turned a video game into a musical instrument? That is, have you ever decided to — temporarily — change your competitive goals to musical ones, while playing a game?

All Projects

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Understanding Game Scoring: Software Programming, Aleatoric Composition and Mimetic Music Technology

Game Scoring: Software Programming and/as Aleatoric Composition for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: The Storytellers Conference 2018