The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition

Roads, Curtis

ISBN 10: 0262044919 / ISBN 13: 9780262044912

Editore: The MIT Press, 2023

Very Good Condition and Unread! Text is clean and unmarked! Light shelf wear to cover from storage. Has a small black line or red dot on bottom/exterior edge of pages. Codice articolo RLR-HCD-VG-0262044919

Riassunto:

Expanded, updated, and fully revised—the definitive introduction to electronic music is ready for new generations of students.

Essential and state-of-the-art, The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition is a singular text that introduces computer and electronic music, explains its motivations, and puts topics into context. Curtis Roads’s step-by-step presentation orients musicians, engineers, scientists, and anyone else new to computer and electronic music.

The new edition continues to be the definitive tutorial on all aspects of computer music, including digital audio, signal processing, musical input devices, performance software, editing systems, algorithmic composition, MIDI, and psychoacoustics, but the second edition also reflects the enormous growth of the field since the book’s original publication in 1996. New chapters cover up-to-date topics like virtual analog, pulsar synthesis, concatenative synthesis, spectrum analysis by atomic decomposition, Open Sound Control, spectrum editors, and instrument and patch editors. Exhaustively referenced and cross-referenced, the second edition adds hundreds of new figures and references to the original charts, diagrams, screen images, and photographs in order to explain basic concepts and terms.

Features

• New chapters: virtual analog, pulsar synthesis, concatenative synthesis, spectrum analysis by atomic decomposition, Open Sound Control, spectrum editors, instrument and patch editors, and an appendix on machine learning

• Two thousand references support the book’s descriptions and point readers to further study

• Mathematical notation and program code examples used only when necessary

• Twenty-five years of classroom, seminar, and workshop use inform the pace and level of the material

Informazioni sull?autore: Curtis Roads is Professor of Media Arts and Technology, with an affiliate appointment in Music, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His previous books include Microsound and Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition
Casa editrice: The MIT Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2023
Legatura: hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
Edizione: 2.