Research Catalog

Title

The Music machine : selected readings from Computer music journal / edited by Curtis Roads.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

Roads, Curtis.

Description

xiii, 725 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Uniform Title

Computer music journal.

Subject

• Computer music > History and criticism
• Computer music
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Computermusik
• Elektronische muziek

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Interviews -- Interview with Max Mathews / Curtis Roads -- A Conversation with James A. Moorer / Curtis Roads -- A Conversation with Clarence Barlow / Stephan Kaske -- Interview with Paul Lansky / Curtis Roads -- Interview with David Rosenboom / Larry Polansky -- Interview with Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa, and Charles Wuorinen / Richard Boulanger -- Composition -- Computer Music Experiments 1964- ... / Jean-Claude Risset -- Composing with Computers: A Progress Report / Lejaren Hiller -- Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco: A Realization at IRCAM / Jonathan Harvey -- Loudspeakers and Performers: Some Problems and Proposals / Dexter Morrill -- Dreamsong: The Composition / Michael McNabb -- Composition Theory in Koenig's Project One and Project Two / Otto Laske -- Automated Composition and Composed Automation / Giuseppe Englert -- Timbral Construction in Arras as a Stochastic Process / Barry Truax -- Interactive Composing: An Overview / Joel Chadabe -- The Making of Octuor / Horacio Vaggione -- Stylistic Automata in Gradient / Charles Ames -- Comments on University Instruction in Computer Music Composition / Jacques Arveiller -- The MIDI Interface -- Musicians Make a Standard: The MIDI Phenomenon / D. Gareth Loy -- Music and Microprocessors: MIDI and the State of the Art / Christopher Yavelow -- Music Software -- A Note on Music Printing by Computer / Curtis Roads -- Personal Composer / Jim Miller -- Scope in Interactive Score Editors / W. Buxton, S. Patel, W. Reeves, R. Baecker --
• Objed and the Design of Timbral Resources / W. Buxton, S. Patel, W. Reeves, R. Baecker -- Gcomp: Graphic Control of Mixing and Processing / Colin Banger and Bruce Pennycook -- Pla: a Composer's Idea of a Language / Bill Schottstaedt -- Flavors Band: a Language for Specigying Musical Style / Christopher Fry -- The 4CED Program / Curtis Abbott -- Notes on the Implementation of MUSBOX: a Compiler for the Systems Concepts Digital Synthesizer / D. Gareth Loy -- A Panoply of Stochastic 'Cannons' / Denis Lorrain -- Compositional Applications of Stochastic Processes / Kevin Jones -- Aesthetic Integration of Computer-Composed Scores / Gottfried Michael Koenig -- FORMES: Composition and Scheduling of Processes / Xavier Rodet and Pierre Cointe -- Synthesis and Signal Processing -- A Tutorial on Digital Sound Synthesis Techniques / Giovanni De Poli -- The CHANT Project: From the Synthesis of the Singing Voice to Synthesis in General / Xavier Rodet, Yves Potard, and Jean-Baptiste Barrière -- Synthesis of Plucked-String and Drum Timbres / Kevin Karplus and Alex Strong -- Extensions of the Karplus-Strong Plucked-String Algorithm / David Jaffe and Julius O. Smith -- Responsive Input Devices and Sound Synthesis by Simulation of Instrumental Mechanisms: The Cordis System / C. Cadoz, A. Luciani, and J. Florens -- Fundamentals of Digital Filter Theory / Julius O. Smith -- Timbre and the Perceptual Effects of Three Types of Data Reduction / Gérard R. Charbonneau -- Synthesis of Timbral Families by Warped Linear Prediction / Paul Lansky and Kenneth Steiglitz --
• Toward an Intelligent Editor of Digital Audio: Recognition of Musical Constructs / Chris Chafe, Bernard Mont-Reynaud, and Loren Rush -- Toward an Intelligent Editor of Digital Audio: Signal Processing Methods / Scott Foster, W. Andrew Schloss, and A. Joseph Rockmore -- A general Model for Spatial Processing of Sounds / F. Richard Moore -- Designing Multi-Channel Reverberators / John Stautner and Miller Puckette -- Signal Processing Hardware -- Synthesizers I Have Known and Loved / James A. Moorer -- The Lucasfilm Audio Signal Processor / James A. Moorer -- Developing a Commercial Digital Sound Synthesizer / S. Jerrold Kaplan -- Notes on Very-Large-Scale Integration and the Design of Real-Time Digital Sound Processors / Mark Kahrs -- Music and Artificial Intelligence -- Music, Mind, and Meaning / Marvin Minsky -- Simulating Musical Skills by Digital Computer / John Rothgeb -- Simulating Musical Skills by Digital Computer / John Rothgeb -- On Some Computational Models of Music Theory / John Rahn -- Approximation and Syntactic Analysis of Amplitude and Frequency Functions for Digital Sound Synthesis / John Strawn -- Musical Performance: a Synthesis-by-Rule Approach / Johan Sundberg, Anders Askenfelt, and Lars Frydén.

ISBN

• 0262181312
• 9780262181310
• 0262680785
• 9780262680783

LCCN

88009208

OCLC

• ocm17776026
• 17776026
• SCSB-1714730

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library