The Computer Music Tutorial

The Computer Music Tutorial

Second edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 analogue, 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 analogue, 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

Book information

ISBN: 9780262044912
Publisher: The MIT Press
Imprint: The MIT Press
Pub date:
Edition: Second edition
DEWEY: 780.285
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 1080
Weight: 2540g
Height: 261mm
Width: 214mm
Spine width: 51mm