The Music Machine: Selected Readings from Computer Music Journal - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262680785 ISBN 13: 9780262680783

Publisher: MIT Press, 1992

Synopsis

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 (M.I.D.I.). 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.

About this title

About the Author

Curtis Roads is Associate Professor of Media Arts and Technology, with a joint appointment in the Department of Music, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Review

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

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262680785
• ISBN 13: 9780262680783
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 739
• Editor: Roads Curtis