The Oxford handbook of computer music / edited by Roger T. Dean.

This handbook provides a cross-section of the most field-defining topics and debates in the field of computer music today. From music cognition to pedagogy, it situates computer music in the broad context of its creation and performance across the full range of issues that crop up in discourse in th...

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Other Authors: Dean, R. T. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Series:Oxford Handbooks Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Some histories of computer music and its technologies: A historical view of computer music technology / Douglas Keislar
  • Early hardware and early ideas in computer music : their development and their current forms / Paul Doornbusch
  • Sound synthesis using computers / Peter Manning.
  • Part II. The music: Computational approaches to composition of notated instrumental music : Xenakis and the other pioneers / James Harley
  • Envisaging improvisation in future computer music / Roger T. Dean
  • Computer music : some reflections / Trevor Wishart
  • Some notes on my electronic improvisation practice / Tim Perkis
  • Combining the acoustic and the digital : music for instruments and computers or pre-recorded sound / Simon Emmerson.
  • Part III. Creative and performance modes: Dancing the music : interactive dance and music / Wayne Siegel
  • Gesture and morphology in laptop music performance / Garth Paine
  • Sensor based musical instruments and interactive music / Atau Tanaka
  • Spatialization and computer music / Peter Lennox
  • The voice in computer music and its relationship to place, identity, and community / Hazel Smith
  • Algorithmic synaesthesia / Noam Sagiv, Roger T. Dean, and Freya Bailes
  • An introduction to data sonification / David Worrall
  • Electronica / Nick Collins
  • Generative algorithms for making music : emergence, evolution, and ecosystems / Jon McCormack, Alice Eldridge, Alan Dorin, and Peter Mcilwain.
  • Part IV. Cognition and computation of computer music: Computational modeling of music cognition and musical creativity / Geraint A. Wiggins, Marcus T. Pearce and Daniel Müllensiefen
  • Soundspotting : a new kind of process? / Michael Casey
  • Interactivity and improvisation / George E. Lewis
  • From outside the window : electronic sound performance / Pauline Oliveros
  • Empirical studies of computer sound / Freya Bailes and Roger T. Dean.
  • Part V. Cultural and educational issues: Toward the gender ideal / Mary Simoni
  • Sound-based music 4 all / Leigh Landy
  • Framing learning perspectives in computer music education / Jøran Rudi and Palmyre Pierroux.