Expanded, updated, and fully revised—the definitive introduction to electronic music is ready for new generations of students. Written and researched by Curtis Roads, multiple award-winning composer, author, professor, researcher, and innovator, The Computer Music Tutorial Second Edition is the landmark text that introduces computer and electronic music, explains its motivations, and puts topics into context. Step-by-step presentation in shorter chapters will orient 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, and reflects the enormous growth of the field since the book’s original publication in 1996. New chapters cover up-to-date topics like virtual analog, pulsar synthesis, concatenative synthesis, spectrum analysis by atomic decomposition, Open Sound Control, spectrum editors, and instrument and patch editors. Exhaustively referenced and cross-referenced, this new text adds hundreds of new figures and references to the original charts, diagrams, screen images, and photographs to explain basic concepts and terms. eBook.
