Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building blocks of music--notes and their intervals--into a more fluid and supple medium. The sensations of point, pulse (series of points), line (tone), and surface (texture) emerge as particle density increases. Sounds coalesce, evaporate, and mutate into other sounds. Composers have used theories of microsound in computer music since the 1950s. Distinguished practitioners include Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. Today, with the increased interest in computer and electronic music, many young composers and software synthesis developers are exploring its advantages. Covering all aspects of composition with sound particles, Microsound offers composition theory, historical accounts, technical overviews, acoustical experiments, descriptions of musical works, and aesthetic reflections. The book is accompanied by an audio CD of examples.
La musique électronique et informatique nécessite des outils sophistiqués, une grande habilité dans le travail de studio et une parfaite connaissance des techniques audionumériques. Devenu au fil des années le livre de référence, L'audionumérique s'adresse à tous les techniciens et ingénieurs du son ainsi qu'aux musiciens compositeurs qui souhaitent découvrir ce domaine ou se perfectionner.
Largement illustré de schémas, captures d'écran et photos, cet ouvrage présente l'ensemble des aspects théoriques, pratiques et esthétiques de la synthèse et du traitement d'un signal sonore dans un environnement numérique :La première partie traite de l'environnement et des outils : mixage, filtres numériques, spatialisation et réverbération, hauteur et rythme, méthodes d'analyse spectrale, MIDI, etc.La seconde partie aborde l'échantillonnage puis décrit dans le détail tous les types de synthèse sonore : additive, granulaire, pulsar, par modulation, formantique, graphique, etc.Cette 3e édition s'enrichit de deux nouveaux chapitres consacrés aux méthodes par décomposition atomique et à la synthèse concaténative.
Expanded, updated, and fully revised--the definitive introduction to electronic music is ready for new generations of students.
Essential and state of the art, The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition is a singular text that introduces computer and electronic music, explains its motivations, and puts topics into context. Curtis Roads's step-by-step presentation orients 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, but the second edition also 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, the second edition adds hundreds of new figures and references to the original charts, diagrams, screen images, and photographs in order to explain basic concepts and terms.
Features New chapters: virtual analog, pulsar synthesis, concatenative synthesis, spectrum analysis by atomic decomposition, Open Sound Control, spectrum editors, instrument and patch editors, and an appendix on machine learningTwo thousand references support the book's descriptions and point readers to further studyUses mathematical notation and program code examples only when necessaryTwenty-five years of classroom, seminar, and workshop use inform the pace and level of the material
