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UC Irvine Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2021)

Video games as interactive media provide a natural venue for algorithmic music as the soundtracks which are dynamic, adaptive, procedural, interactive, modular, and generative. This dissertation explores the composition of algorithmic game music as a device for transforming gameplay into musical improvisation, which I call Advanced Dynamic Music (ADM). The ADM system combines various compositional techniques and procedures with a real time algorithmic strategy that links types of music and game parameters to generate or “improvise” game music interacting with the actions of players. This paper first gives a review of existing theoretical and musical literature on game music. Based on this literature review, I explore the compositional approaches in two creative game music projects: Do or Die: A Roll Playing Adventure and Mastery.

Through my experience working on the two projects, I propose eight defining properties of ADM: variability, user-interaction, modularity, game-music association, multidimensionality, multiplicity, staticity, and coherency. ADM is the very first systematic and specific definition of a type of highly dynamic game music, which derived and developed from my experience in the two creative projects as the composer, game-music interaction designer, and music-game programmer and integrator. ADM can be used as an analytical methodology or taxonomy for game music scholars, as well as a compositional framework and solution for game composers in the future.

    Cover page: Advanced Dynamic Music: Composing Algorithmic Music in Video Games as an Improvisatory Device for PlayersCreative Commons 'BY-NC-ND' version 4.0 license
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    UC San Francisco Previously Published Works (2016)
    Elevated basal serum tryptase levels are present in 4-6% of the general population, but the cause and relevance of such increases are unknown. Previously, we described subjects with dominantly inherited elevated basal serum tryptase levels associated with multisystem complaints including cutaneous flushing and pruritus, dysautonomia, functional gastrointestinal symptoms, chronic pain, and connective tissue abnormalities, including joint hypermobility. Here we report the identification of germline duplications and triplications in the TPSAB1 gene encoding α-tryptase that segregate with inherited increases in basal serum tryptase levels in 35 families presenting with associated multisystem complaints. Individuals harboring alleles encoding three copies of α-tryptase had higher basal serum levels of tryptase and were more symptomatic than those with alleles encoding two copies, suggesting a gene-dose effect. Further, we found in two additional cohorts (172 individuals) that elevated basal serum tryptase levels were exclusively associated with duplication of α-tryptase-encoding sequence in TPSAB1, and affected individuals reported symptom complexes seen in our initial familial cohort. Thus, our findings link duplications in TPSAB1 with irritable bowel syndrome, cutaneous complaints, connective tissue abnormalities, and dysautonomia.
      Cover page: Elevated basal serum tryptase identifies a multisystem disorder associated with increased TPSAB1 copy number
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