Current Directions in Computer Music Research (System Development Foundation Benchmark Series) - Hardcover

Mathews, William J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262132419 ISBN 13: 9780262132411

Publisher: MIT Press, 1989

Synopsis

These twenty-one original contributions by composers, behavioral scientists, engineers, and other specialists from many of the international centers of research in computer music provide an inside report on the most sophisticated aspects of digital synthesis, control and understanding of musical sound, and related work on perception. Among the specific topics covered are speech songs, synthesis of the singing voice, spatial reverberation, the simulation of bowed instruments, and a conductor program utilizing a mechanical baton. A chapter authored jointly by Mathews and Pierce describes a new musical scale they have been working on for the past few years.

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Synopsis

The editors of this collection of 21 original contributions by composers, behavioral scientists, engineers, and other specialists are members of the music faculty at Stanford. Among the specific topics covered are speech songs, synthesis of the singing voice, spatial reverberation, the simulation of bowed instruments, automatic counterpoint, and (u

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262132419
• ISBN 13: 9780262132411
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400