The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition - Hardcover

Roads, Curtis

 
9780262044912: The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0262044919 ISBN 13: 9780262044912
Publisher: MIT Press, 2023

Synopsis

Expanded, updated, and fully revised--the definitive introduction to electronic music is ready for new generations of students. <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>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
  • Uses mathematical notation and program code examples only when necessary
  • Twenty-five years of classroom, seminar, and workshop use inform the pace and level of the material

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    About the Author

    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.

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    Publisher
    MIT Press
    Publication date
    2023
    Language
    English
    ISBN 10 
    0262044919
    ISBN 13 
    9780262044912
    Binding
    Hardcover
    Edition number
    2
    Number of pages
    1080