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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you haven't seen the summer double issue of JSMG, it's INCREDIBLE! Featuring Claudia Macari, Cora S. Palfy, Max D. Rodney, Joseph Chang, Rastko Buljančević, Jenna Jennissary, John Robert Matz, Laura Intravia, and Cristina Guzmán Anaya! online.ucpress.edu/jsmg/issue/7...

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Volume 7 Issue 2-3 | Journal of Sound and Music in Games | University of California Press

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I adore this piece--I knew I wanted to publish it in the journal the moment I saw the talk. Congrats to JRM on a fantastic article on a beautiful game score!

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Joshua Dieringer @jdvgmcatlib.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This has been an absolute blast! I will miss the people, place, and constant excitement from this experience! So honored to be on a panel with @musicologess.bsky.social, @eightbitaria.bsky.social, and Sarah at Save the Games 2026 at the Strong National Museum of Play! Will hopefully be back again! 🎮

Sarah, Dana, Madison, and I posing as letters to form the word play in the outside park at the Strong National Museum of Play.

Madison, Dana, Sarah, and I posing on the steps of the Strong National Museum of Play’s Sesame Street set.

The front of the Strong National Museum of Play which features mostly glass windows with the Strong Museum National Museum of Play text on the windows.

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Saw a great talk on museum collecting of video games and there's a survey for Alysha's PhD research you all can take as gamers, fans, curators, researchers, game developers, and practitioners. She said she's looking for more North American respondents! researchsurveys.deakin.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It is doubly hard to be in both music performing and music academia--both fields are so bound up in our identities and passionate curiosity and the desire to build upon something to create anew. This is brilliant but difficult advice to follow!

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Help with a playlist I'm working on: what are your favorite forest-y themes from video games?

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"It's the Empire Strikes Back of musical theater ballads. It's dark." Me, describing "As Long As You're Mine" from Wicked to a student.

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Good news: Canvas back online. Students won't lose any time in the already-condensed 8-week summer term! Bad news: I lost several days of my usual fiddling so I'm burning all the oil of several timezones' midnights to launch my two summer classes for tomorrow and submit the last few spring grades! 😴

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I've never seen My Hero Academia, do they all get tenure by the end

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Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Traveling the world with your two best friends is highly recommended. And in @musicologess.bsky.social’s words, taking in the Burkian sublime with them is a step beyond. Incredible Sunday for us all.

Myself with Dana and Sarah at the bottom of Niagara Falls’ tunnel

Image of Niagara Falls, taken by Sarah PC

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Joshua Dieringer @jdvgmcatlib.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

So excited to be presenting with my awesome panel on video game (music) professional and fan-made collections in July at the Strong Museum! I have always wanted to visit this amazing place! 😊

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Game Sound Con speaker submissions are now open through May 10. I would love for you to join me and Matthew Thompson for the Game Audio Studies Track! www.gamesoundcon.com/submissions GameSoundCon will be Oct 20-21, 2026 at the Marriott Convention Center in Burbank, California

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Submissions | GameSoundCon Speaker Submissions

Accepting submissions on topics in game music and sound design, virtual and augmented reality audio and game audio research & education

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Hey stream friends! We had planned for me to comandeer the Bardic Knowledge channel tonight and have Andrew Powell join me and @cooksterkc.bsky.social since Ryan's traveling back from GDC but the password he gave me didn't work (!), so we will catch you all next week on the flip side.

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It's going to be an amazing stream tonight, because the incomparable @coycompositions.bsky.social is going to join me, @bardicknowledge.bsky.social and @cooksterkc.bsky.social to discuss the music of Stellar Blade! Join us 9pm Eastern at twitch.tv/bardicknowledge

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Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Got back from an incredible weekend. Met @bobbeigh.is.tall.fyi in person finally (he rules), spent 24 hrs with @sarahpcphd.bsky.social and @musicologess.bsky.social — my heart (and my stomach - Dana spoiled me+Sarah) is full and I am gonna make it through the semester to April now.

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Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I’ll be on streaming an hour early tonight at 8:00 PM Eastern tonight, everyone — Ludomusicology Thursday is co-streaming and snarking on top of The Game Awards tonight! Join us here: twitch.tv/bardicknowle...

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Pleased to share that I uploaded the Zoom recording from the Journal of Sound and Music in Games Editorial Team's Pipeline to Publication: A JSMG Mentorship Workshop to YouTube for future reference! Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro8V...

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Pipeline to Publication: A JSMG Mentorship Workshop

YouTube video by Dana Plank

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I love the concept of typing in 7/8 and am going to do my own experiments with meter and emailing

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Anabel Maler is this year’s winner of the Society for Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar Book Award, for her incredible book, Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music She is amazing!!!

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

#amssmt25 folks: my group of Ryan and Sarah is heading to the conference this morning to give our final hugs before our big road trip back to Michigan and Ohio; come see us in the lobby!

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DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

✨OUT NOW✨ 75’ Saturations The second transmission from ECLCL, my collaboration with Eldlin Cope, in guitar conversation bending space and time. Friendship as frequency. Sound as myth. Respect the vibrations. lostchocolatelab.bandcamp.com/album/eclcl-...

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ECLCL - 75’ Saturations, by Lost Chocolate Lab

3 track album

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Do you have an idea you are interested in publishing in the Journal of Sound and Music in Games? If so, I want to hear about it! #amsmt25 @ucpress.bsky.social

Dana in a multicolored floral pencil skirt, a shirt with the title screen from the original Legend of Zelda game, and a green velvet blazer, holding up a copy of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games

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Drake Eshleman @drakethatsme.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I've always thought this, but I just wanted to say... @musicologess.bsky.social is really the Bluesky Laureate of #NACVGM. Anyway, enjoying SMT/AMS 2025!

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I am at Dr. Anabel Maler’s talk at AMS/SMT and my unbiased take is that she is a genius #amssmt25

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Back to back conference blitz is a lot; I'm still recovering from Game Sound Con travel last week and I'm turning right around to drive to Minneapolis with colleagues for AMS/SMT!

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

My travel outfit to Game Sound Con yesterday. I wore these very maximalist floral pants with my Stardew t-shirt and I just feel like the look would be totally @damiankastbauer.bsky.social approved! I'll be in colorful outfits all GSC so come find me! I'm easy to spot!

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

At Game Sound Con! Come check out my talk this afternoon at 3:25 on the music of the Hellblade games, and then tomorrow on my birthday I'll be participating in a great panel on Game Audio and Accessibility. Come say hi!

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

What a great thing to wake up to! New issue of JSMG went live today! Check it out at online.ucpress.edu/jsmg

Table of contents for the new issue of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games

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Bonnie Bogovich - conferences and concerts:) @blackcatbonifide.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"Do You Count Spoons? We have to! - Making Game Audio Development Accessible" whova.com/portal/webap... "A Panel on Audio & Accessibility" whova.com/portal/webap... @otortoisesound.bsky.social @sarasecora.com @mattesque.bsky.social @musicologess.bsky.social & more! #gamesoundcon #gsc2025 #gameaudio

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Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Tonight at 9:00 PM we have the wonderful @lauraintravia.bsky.social joining the stream to play horror games with us (and to discuss how much fun she, @musicologess.bsky.social, and I are gonna have at GameSoundCon next week!) Don't miss this one, team! twitch.tv/bardicknowledge

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The Game Audio Diversity Alliance @gameaudiodiversity.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Introducing our #GameSoundCon 2025 Speaker Stipend Recipients! Darius Gourdine is one of our scholar alumni and we're excited to see them speak at GSC! 🎤 #GameAudio Darius is a Technical Sound Designer who has worked in the industry for around 8 years. I recently completed my contract with [1/4]

GameSoundCon graphic for the talk Multiclassing: Rise of the Audio Generalist

Selfie of Darius Gourdine, a technical sound designer.

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Announcing our JSMG editorial board Pipeline to Publication Workshop Friday, October 17 at 2pm EDT/7pm GMT at tinyurl.com/bdcpupby, passcode: 847119. We hope you can join us, and please share this post to all who might benefit!

Flyer that includes the cover image of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games in light blue text over a dark background and the text Pipeline to Publication: A JSMG Mentorship Workshop. Friday, October 17. 2:00pm EDT, 7:00pm UTC/GMT. https://tinyurl.com/bdcpupby
Passcode: 847119

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The new special issue 'Approaches from Latin America: Video Game Music and Sound' from the "Journal of Sound and Music in Games" (which we publish in partnership with @sssmg.bsky.social) is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/jsmg/issue/6/3

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Volume 6 Issue 3 | Journal of Sound and Music in Games | University of California Press

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Pretty excited to give a talk at Ithaca this Friday, which I will be doing a slightly different version of at Game Sound Con in October!

The title slide for a talk Dana is giving at Ithaca and Game Sound Con this year: "To Smother Your Furies and Banish Your Fears..." Trauma, Psychosis, and Empathetic Engagement in the Music of the Hellblade Games. Below the title is Dana's name, email address (DanaMPlank@gmail.com) and affiliation (Editor in Chief, the Journal of Sound and Music in Games). The background of the slide is black with gray runic text and a close up of Senua's face is on the right side, a Pict warrior with blue face paint over her forehead and eyes and a stripe extending down from her bottom lip to the bottom of her chin. She has pale skin and blue eyes, and a leather head band with a blue gem in the middle.

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Today's the day! Hope to see your application!

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Tia 🌹Maxfield @tiggsvoice.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

It was an honor to get to sing for this!

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Laura Intravia @lauraintravia.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

You can catch my voice in various moments of the soundtrack, but one of my favorites is the very first track “Under the Tree of Light.” youtu.be/JL5LwY0d8es?...

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Destiny: Rising | Global Launch Original Soundtrack Part. 1

YouTube video by Destiny: Rising

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Jillian Aversa 🎙️🎶 @jillianaversa.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

It is my deepest honor to share this collaboration with legendary #composer #YokoShimomura (#midiplex): the main theme song to the action RPG video game #LostSoulAside, for which I am the lead #vocalist and co-lyricist. ✨🐉 #gamemusic #videogamemusic #vgm #OST #soundtrack #actionRPG #singer #lyrics

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Tonight we have the privilege of having @floreustebius.bsky.social on as our guest to discuss more of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33! Come have yet another baguette with us at twitch.tv/bardicknowledge from 9-11pm Eastern!

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Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

We are streaming through to the end of Act 1 of Clair Obscur tonight in 15 minutes (9:00 PM Eastern) -- join myself, @musicologess.bsky.social @juliannegrasso.bsky.social @cooksterkc.bsky.social and @sarahpcphd.bsky.social over at twitch.tv/bardicknowledge and hang out a bit!

Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Tonight 9-11pm at twitch.tv/bardicknowledge we are finishing Sea of Stars DLC + starting Clair Obscur with special guest @asptheory.bsky.social. I am going for a stereotypically French outfit; I ended up essentially closet cosplaying. Join us tonight for baguettes, brie, wine, and my accordions!

Dana a brown eyed brunette in a black and white horizontal striped tee, black suspenders, a red neck scarf, red lipstick, winged black eyeliner, black round frame glasses and a vintage red pillbox hat that reads as a beret

An image from Clair Obscur of a woman with medium length black hair and red lipstick, dressed in a sleeveless black and white striped top with black suspenders, a red neck scarf, big red sunglasses, a red beret, and a piece of red gingham tied around the shoulder and across the chest to hold a baguette on her back

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