The Oxford handbook of computer music / edited by Roger T. Dean.

Since the first musical tones were produced on a computer in 1950, composers of computer music have produced a major body of creative works, and today the field has its own canon and accepted modes of analysis and pedagogy. As technologies improve and become increasingly available, the cost of performances - both live solo and networked - and studio composition have fallen sharply. The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music fills this gap by providing a state-of-the-art cross-section of the most field-defining topics and debates in the field of computer music today. A unique contribution to the field, it situates computer music in the broad context of its creation and performance across the full range of issues - from music cognition to pedagogy to sociocultural analyses - that crop up in contemporary discourse in the field. It focuses not only on art music, but also on the important movements of microsonics, the computer DJ, and computer-interactive performance more broadly

Introduction : the many futures of computer music / A historical view of computer music technology / Early hardware and early ideas in computer music : their development and their current forms / Sound synthesis using computers / Computational approaches to composition of notated instrumental music : Xenakis and the other pioneers / Envisaging improvisation in future computer music / Computer music : some reflections / Some notes on my electronic improvisation practice / Combining the acoustic and the digital : music for instruments and computers or pre-recorded sound / Dancing the music : interactive dance and music / Gesture and morphology in laptop music performance / Sensor based musical instruments and interactive music / Spatialization and computer music / The voice in computer music and its relationship to place, identity, and community / Algorithmic synaesthesia / An introduction to data sonification / Electronica / Generative algorithms for making music : emergence, evolution, and ecosystems / Computational modeling of music cognition and musical creativity / Soundspotting : a new kind of process? / Interactivity and improvisation / From outside the window : electronic sound performance / Empirical studies of computer sound / Toward the gender ideal / Sound-based music 4 all / Framing learning perspectives in computer music education /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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