FUELtank: Video games, music, action!
Music meets games on the 6th of November!
Welcome to spend the day with game music and video games. The event offers insights from game industry professionals and chances for game and music people to meet.
The event is free and open to everyone. Registration is required.
Registration is open until 3.11.2024.
What is Game Week?
Game Week is an annual theme week dedicated to game education and game culture, celebrated every November! Game Week was first held in 2011 and is part of the international Games Month.
This year, the theme of Game Week is: Competition!
During the event you will have the chance to participate in the Game Week Tournament. The prize for the best player in Finland is max 300 e worth of digital and board games.
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Explore & Experience
10:00 – 11:00
Is your creative muse on vacation? Use AI to help with songwriting! In this workshop, you’ll get to try how creating lyrics and writing a song works with the help of AI. At the end, you’ll get to listen to the song you made.
The workshop is arranged by the AI Academy project.
Where?
Future Experience Lab FUEL
Paja restaurant, downstairs, Xamk Kouvola campus
Kuuselankatu 1
45130 Kouvola
11:00 – 12:00
You can have lunch on campus at your own expense before the afternoon seminar.
Immersion & Inspiration
The event continues in hybrid format, so you’re welcome to join on-site or watch the stream. The stream link can be found here after the registration closed.
We reserve the right to make changes to the program.
12:00 – 15:45
🤖 Intro | Welcome & FUEL innovation space introduction
🎵 Keynote | Composer Petri Alanko (aka Lowland) is a three times BAFTA nominated Finnish composer, musician, sound designer and producer.
His dynamic repertoire ranges from the haunting orchestral/electronic score for Remedy Entertainment’s psycho-thriller, Alan Wake, to elegant and sophisticated classical arrangements for Imaginaerum The Movie, based on the album by symphonic metal band Nightwish.
🎵 Rytmi-instituutti & Project KLUSTERI | Speaker TBA
🎮 Nitro Games | Speaker TBA
☕ Coffee Break
♟️PI, Marta Brković Dodig, Singidunum University, Faculty of Media and Communications
🎮 Game Presentation: Tuonela | Kaisa Hiltunen, Iida Malm & Paju Ahtiainen
🤖 Outro | Suvi Pylvänen, Head of Game Design Program, Xamk
The stream closes.
💬 Networking & FUELtank Collaboration Workshop for Game Designers & Music creators
What is FUELtank?
FUELtank is an event series that contains inspiring and thought-provoking presentations, speeches, experiments and workshops focused around a common theme. Each event explores its theme through different points of view. FUELtanks are organized by the Creative Industries Research Unit at Xamk, and by different research, development and innovation projects, and experts from various fields.
What is the Creative Industries Research Unit?
We are a multidisciplinary team that combines the creative economy with other sectors. Our goal is to seek future competitiveness and wellbeing through creativity and diversity. Among us you will find, for example, experts in design, wellbeing and creative business.
This event is brought to you by
KLUSTERI
ENG – AI-Akatemia – Tekoäly korkeakoulutuksessa
In collaboration with
FUELtank: Video games, music, action!
Place
- Kouvola
Location
Future Experience Lab FUEL
Paja restaurant, downstairs, Xamk Kouvola campus
Kuuselankatu 1
45130 Kouvola