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The Music Machine: Selected Readings from Computer Music Journal (Paperback)

by Curtis Roads (Editor) "Interviews are an effective means of communication; they tend to bring out ideas, emotions, opinions, and contradictions that would be difficult to present in another..." (more)
Key Phrases: phrase processor, timbral construction, linger command, New York, Flavors Band, Stanford University (more...)
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If you'd like to immerse yourself in a comprehensive overview of the last five years in computer music, this is definitely the place to start."
-- Keyboard

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Since its inception in 1976, Computer Music Journal has led the field as the essential resource for musicians, composers, scientists, engineers, and computer enthusiasts interested in contemporary electronic music and computer-generated sound.

In The Music Machine, Curtis Roads brings together 53 classic articles published in Computer Music Journal between 1980 and 1985, providing a cohesive survey of the major developments in computer music and in the related technology during the last decade. The book includes interviews with major figures in the field and articles devoted to composition, artificial intelligence, and the popular Music Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI). Roads has written an overview of each of the book's seven parts, highlighting the major topics and placing the various articles in a thematic and historical context.

Curtis Roads is a composer, a producer, and associate editor of Computer Music Journal.

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Interviews are an effective means of communication; they tend to bring out ideas, emotions, opinions, and contradictions that would be difficult to present in another format. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
phrase processor, timbral construction, linger command, inharmonic ratio, interactive composing, sound synthesis system, decay stretching, short asc, computer music community, header expressions, music compiler, string simulator, audio signal processor, frequency simplification, heterodyne filter, arc sine distribution, digital sound synthesis, computer music composition, phase vocoder, triad descends, sound synthesis techniques, bulk voice, stochastic music, computer music studio, computer music systems
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Flavors Band, Stanford University, Systems Concepts, Department of Music, Personal Composer, Max Mathews, New Jersey, San Francisco, Bell Laboratories, Sound Example, Lisp Machine, Acoustical Society of America, John Chowning, Journal of the Acoustical, Sound Designer, Bell Labs, Englewood Cliffs, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Los Altos, Panoply of Stochastic, The Synthesis of Complex Audio Spectra, Princeton University, Curtis Roads, Professional Composer
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