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Author:   Roger T. Dean (Research Professor of Sonic Communication, Research Professor of Sonic Communication, University of Western Sydney)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 25.50cm
Weight:   1.205kg
ISBN:  

9780195331615

ISBN 10:   0195331613
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   01 October 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  Adult education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: The many futures of computer music: Roger T. Dean Section I: Some histories of computer music and its technologies 2: A historical view of computer music technology Douglas Keislar 3: Early hardware and early ideas in computer music - their development and their current forms Paul Doornbusch 4: Sound synthesis using computers Peter Manning Section II: The Music 5: Computational approaches to composition of notated instrumental music: Xenakis and the other pioneers James Harley 6: Envisaging improvisation in future computer music Roger T. Dean Section III: Sounding Out 7: Computer music: some reflections Trevor Wishart 8: Some notes on my electronic improvisation practice Tim Perkis 9: Combining the acoustic and the digital: music for instruments and computers or pre-recorded sound Simon Emmerson Section IV: Creative and Performance Modes 10: Dancing the music: interactive dance and music Wayne Siegel 11: Gesture and morphology in laptop music performance Garth Paine 12: Sensor based musical Instruments and interactive music Atau Tanaka 13: Spatialisation and computer music Peter Lennox 14: The voice in computer music and its relationship to place, identity and community Hazel Smith Noam Sagiv, Freya Bailes and Roger T. Dean 16: An introduction to data sonification David Worrall 17: Electronica Nick Collins 18: Generative algorithms for making music: emergence, evolution and ecosystems Jon McCormack, Alice Eldridge, Alan Dorin and Peter McIlwain Section V: Cognition and Computation of Computer Music 19: Computational modelling of music cognition and musical creativity Geraint A. Wiggins, Marcus T. Pearce and Daniel Müllensiefen 20: Soundspotting: a new kind of process? Michael Casey Section VI: Sounding Out 21: Interactivity and improvisation George E. Lewis 22: From outside the window: electronic sound performance Pauline Oliveros 23: Empirical studies of computer sound Freya Bailes and Roger T. Dean Section VII: Cultural and Educational Issues 24: Toward the gender ideal Mary Simoni 25: Sound-based music 4 all Leigh Landy 26: Framing learning perspectives in computer music education Jøran Rudi and Palmyre Pierroux Appendix 27: A chronology of computer music and related events Paul Doornbusch Contributors Index

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Roger Dean is Research Professor of Sonic Communication at the University of Western Sydney, and Founder and Artistic Director of austraLYSIS. He is also author of Hyperimprovisation: Computer Interactive Sound Improvisation (2003) and Sounds from the Corner: Australian Contemporary Jazz Since 1973 (2005)

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