David Sudnow (1938–2007)

Extremely interesting and engaging for 150 of it's 227 pages, but gets a little boring and loses focus by the end. Still, Sudnow's observations are extremely astute and come from a naive place that game studies in 2020 would have to do a lot of work to deprogram itself enough to autonomously appreciate. Essentially, what I'm saying is that David Sudnow was noticing things about the ways sights and sounds and touch, or the body et al, matter in the act of playing games that game studies for a show more lot of decades has neglected or completely denied acknowledging. In 2020 we have brain worms, in 1983 Sudnow had a child- or alien-like perspective on something we've become way too familiar with. show less

In the foreword the author repeats that "this book is difficult to read" (hence the re-written account) and in fact it is. The phenomenological approach is there, but forget to read the author's path towards improvisation if you're not a musician.

This bokk channels the playing of jazz piano (specifically who the process develops) into a language that those of us who can only listen in awe almost can understand. Sort of like translating beowulf for 5th graders.

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