Current Directions in Computer Music Research (System Development Foundation Benchmark Series, 2)

By Charles Dodge and Gerald Bennet & Xavier Rodet

Book Overview

These twenty-one original contributions by composers, behavioral scientists, engineers, and other specialists from many of the international centers of research in computer music provide an inside report on the most sophisticated aspects of digital synthesis, control and understanding of musical sound, and related work on perception. Among the specific topics covered are speech songs, synthesis of the singing voice, spatial reverberation, the simulation of bowed instruments, and a conductor program utilizing a mechanical baton. A chapter authored jointly by Mathews and Pierce describes a new musical scale they have been working on for the past few years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262631393
• ISBN13: 9780262631396
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 5.8"