Computer Music (G6002): Reading list
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[LIB] Collins, Nick (2009)
Introduction to Computer Music. Chichester: Wiley
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Roads, Curtis (1996) The Computer Music Tutorial. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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Dodge, Charles and Jerse, Thomas (1997) Computer Music Synthesis, Composition, and Performance. New York: Schirmer Books
Moore, F. Richard (1990) Elements of Computer Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: P T R Prentice Hall
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Hugill, Andrew (2008) The Digital Musician. New York, NY: Routledge
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Roads, Curtis and Strawn, John (eds.) (1985) Foundations of Computer Music. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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Roads, Curtis (ed.) (1989) The Music Machine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
[LIB Vol 1]
[LIB Vol 2]
Loy, Gareth (2007) Musimathics, Volumes 1 and 2. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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ONLINE(quite mathematical treatment)]
Puckette, Miller S. (2007) The Theory and Technique of Computer Music. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc.
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ONLINE(very mathematical treatment)]
Benson, David J. (2007) Music: A Mathematical Offering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Brown, Andrew (2007) Computers in Music Education. New York, NY: Routledge
Dean, Roger (ed.) (2009) The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music. NY: Oxford University Press
[
ONLINE] Search old International Computer Music Conference Proceedings
[
ONLINE] Gentle but comprehensive coverage from the excellent Columbia team
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Miranda, Eduardo Reck (2002) Computer Sound Design : Synthesis
Techniques and Programming. Oxford: Focal Press. (used to be Eduardo
Miranda (1998) Computer Sound Synthesis for the Electronic Musician.
Oxford: Focal Press.)
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Russ, Martin (2004) Sound Synthesis and Sampling (2nd Edition) Oxford: Focal Press
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Cook, Perry (2002) Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications. A.K.Peters.
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Boulanger, Richard (ed). (2000) The Csound Book. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Csound website
Barry Truax on
granular synthesis
[
LINK] Julius
O. Smith (1991) "Viewpoints on the History of Digital Sound Synthesis".
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Montreal,
Oct 1991, pp. 1-10
Vesa Välimäki and Tapio Takala. (1996) "Virtual Musical Instruments -
Natural Sound Using Physical Models." Organised Sound 1(2): 75-86
[
LINK]Tero
Tolonen, Vesa Välimäki and Matti Karjalainen (1998). Evaluation of
Modern Sound Synthesis Methods. Technical Report 48, Helsinki University
of Technology.
[
LINK] Chris Chafe
(1999) "A Short History of Digital Sound Synthesis by Composers in the
U.S.A". Creativity and the Computer, Recontres Musicales
Pluridisciplinaires, Lyon, March, 1999.
[
LINK] Chris Chafe (2004) "Case Studies of Physical Models in Music Composition". Proc. 2004 Intl. Congress Acoustics, Kyoto
Nord Modular book with lots of sound synthesis ideas
Computer music magazines (Music Technology, Future Music, Computer
Music, Sound on Sound et al.) can be a good source of tutorials and tips
sections. An example from Computer Music of
100 Tips
Synth Secrets articles from Sound on Sound by Gordon Reid
Forum discussion on
synthesizing a kick drum
Dan's cymbal synthesis
Nice
DX7 example sounds
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Miranda, Eduardo Reck (2001) Composing Music with Computers. Oxford: Focal Press
[HTML]
Pearce, M., Meredith, D. and Wiggins, G. A. (2002) Motivations and
Methodologies for Automation of the Compositional Process. Musicae
Scientiae 6(2): 119-147
Computer Music Tutorial chapters 18 and 19
Ames, Charles (1987) Automated Composition in Retrospect 1956-1986. Leonardo 20(2): 169-186
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Hiller, L. A. and Isaacson, L. M. (1979) (original edition 1959)
Experimental Music : Composition with an Electronic Computer. Greenwood
Press
Books by
David Cope
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Cope, David (2005) Computer Models of Musical Creativity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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Cope, David (2001) Virtual Music : Computer Synthesis of Musical Style. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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Cope, David (1996) Experiments in Musical Intelligence. Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions
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Cope, David (1991) Computers and Musical Style. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Noatikl as latest manifestation of the Koan project>
If you're stuck for algorithmic composition inspiration, perhaps look at some
production hints for various dance music genres.
Core SuperCollider sites:
SuperCollider community homepage
SourceForge SuperCollider download site
Swiki open resource site includes information on compiling, contributing code, and third party examples
join the
sc-users
mailing list (it's relatively friendly to newcomers, just be careful
you always try to solve a problem to the best of your ability before you
post, by looking through help files and searching list archives. You
can also Google a topic including 'sc-users' in the search string)
new SC code examples repository
James McCartney's homepage (SC's original creator)
James McCartney. (2002) Rethinking the computer music language: SuperCollider. Computer Music Journal, 26(4): 61-8
Downloading SuperCollider:
(also see the SC community page at the top)
All platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux)
Linux compilation instructions
Older (2009) Wesleyan builds for OS X, PPC and Intel, Tiger and Panther
Other tutorials on SuperCollider:
Three come with SuperCollider: just navigate to them from the main help page
A course by Julio d'Escrivan on sound synthesis using SuperCollider.
A course by Stelios Manousakis on SuperCollider.
There is also a course by David Cottle with an associated book and
SuperCollider examples - in order to obtain it you must email him
yourself, explaining why you want it (at which point he will give you a
download link). He has specifically requested that all potential users
are monitored in this way, so I will not paste a direct link here -
however, you may also see me in person if you'd like a copy.
Dave Phillips' articles introducing
SC on Linux
some SuperCollider standalone projects:
TX Modular by Paul Miller
LNX Studio by Neil Cosgrove
ixiQuarks by Thor Magnusson
Particularity by Cylob
BEASTmulch System by Scott Wilson and Sergio Luque
There are others around, search for Ghost Walk, Currymeter and more...
some SuperCollider audio examples on
SoundCloud
SuperCollider example code
forum
SC related blogs
SUPERDUPERCOLLIDER
Fredrik Olofsson
Cylob
SuperCollider Junction (older)
General computer music
Create Digital Music
Computer Music Blog
[LINK] Farnell, Andy (2008)
Designing Sound: Procedural Audio for Games and Film. Applied Scientific
Press. (now published by MIT Press) The first part of the book, on Pd,
is available for free
download, and there are also some nice example chapters. Dan Stowell has also supplied translations of some examples to SuperCollider:
[SC examples]
Sonnenschein, David. (2001) Sound design : the expressive power of
music, voice, and sound effects in cinema. Studio City, CA: Michael
Wiese Productions.
Viers, Ric (2008) The Sound Effects Bible: How to Create and Record
Hollywood Style Sound Effects. Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese
Productions.
A SuperCollider movie theme example
Recreating James Moorer's THX sound by Batuhan Bozkurt
The Miranda and Cook sound synthesis textbooks have some related materials.
Sound Design Blog
Spear
Princeton SoundLab live analysis sndtools
Cylob's extra FFT examples (SuperCollider)
Scott Wilson's LORIS UGens (SuperCollider)
Analysis of speech drives piano
:
Spectrotune: supposed polyphonic pitch extraction, really just tracks spectrum
[SOURCE]
Jason Freeman's work including web projects and articles
Julian Rohrhuber's work: also see JITLIB in SuperCollider, and various Quarks...
Hobnox Audiotool: Demonstration of the capabilities of Flash audio, work by
Andre Michelle
Andrew Hugill's
links to accompany the Digital Musician, especially networked music links
Peter Traub sound installation for the web:
Bits and Pieces (collects sound files each morning and uses them for that days' creation)
otomata: Nice in browser sound toy example by Batuhan Bozkurt
Miriam Tumeo's
Rhythm Perception Timeline
Justin London. Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter. Oxford University Press, New York, 2004.
Eric F. Clarke. Rhythm and timing in music. In Deutsch [1999], pages 473-500.
Diana Deutsch, editor. The Psychology of Music (2nd Edition). Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1999.
Ernst Poppel and Marc Wittman. Time in the mind. In Robert A. Wilson and
Frank Keil, editors, The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences,
pages 841-3. MIT Press, Camb, MA, 1999.
Richard Parncutt. A perceptual model of pulse salience and metrical accent in musical rhythms. Music Perception,
11(4):409-64, 1994.
Leon van Noorden and Dirk Moelants. Resonance in the perception of musical pulse. Journal of New Music
Research, 28(1):43-66, 1999.
Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing. Computational models of beat induction:
The rule-based approach. Journal of New Music Research, 28(1):29-42,
1999.
Martin Clayton. Time in Indian Music: Rhythm, Metre and Form in North
Indian Rag Performance. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.