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

Mathews, Max V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262631393 ISBN 13: 9780262631396

Publisher: MIT Press, 1991

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

These 21 original contributions by composers, behavioural scientists, engineers, and other specialists provide an inside report on the most sophistocated 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 jointly authored by Mathews and Pierce describes a new musical scale they have been working on for the past few years. A "sound examples" compact disc is also available.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0262631393
• ISBN 13: 9780262631396
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 440