Everything about Computer music
Application of computing technology in music
Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs. It includes the theory and application of new and existing computer software technologies and basic aspects of music, such as sound synthesis, digital signal processing, sound design, sonic diffusion, acoustics, electrical engineering, and psychoacoustics. The field of computer music can trace its roots back to the origins of electronic music, and the first experiments and innovations with electronic instruments at the turn of the 20th century. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Computer musicA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Multimedia programmes: creating computer music to enhance creative thinkingInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Gödel, Escher, BachThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Computer MusicCited 22 times
- Go sideways: Shlomo DubnovA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Algorithmic compositionA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Computer Music
Music and computer composition
Languages for Computer Music
Computer music animations
Paradigms and Computer Music
New Computer Music
A Computer Music Retrospective
Teaching computer music in a computer setting
🆕 Influential since 2022
Multimedia programmes: creating computer music to enhance creative thinking
Analysis of Music Teaching in Basic Education Integrating Scientific Computing Visualization and Computer Music Technology
Computer Analysis and Automatic Recognition Technology of Music Emotion
Brain-Computer Music Interface, a bibliometric analysis
Advancing computer science in education: integrating digital music technology into elementary school music programs
📚 Books worth reading
Gödel, Escher, BachDouglas R. Hofstadter · 1979
iPodJ. D. Biersdorfer, David Pogue · 2003
Electronic and experimental musicThom Holmes · 2008
iPod & iTunes for dummiesTony Bove · 2004
The Future of the Music BusinessSteve Gordon · 2005
Experiencing music technologyDavid Brian Williams, Peter Richard Webster · 1996
The iPod bookScott Kelby · 2005
Foundations of musicNelson, Robert · 1987
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🔗 Related topics
- Shlomo Dubnov Shlomo Dubnov (Hebrew: שלמה דובנוב) is an American-Israeli computer music researcher and composer. He is a professor in the Music Department and Affiliate…
- Algorithmic composition Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music. Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been used to…
- Max Mathews Max Vernon Mathews (November 13, 1926 – April 21, 2011) was an American pioneer of computer music. Max Vernon Mathews was born on November 13, 1926, in…
- Paul Doornbusch Paul Doornbusch (born 1959, Melbourne) is an Australian composer and musician. He is the author of a book documenting the first computer music, made with…
- Electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpos…
- OpenMusic OpenMusic (OM) is an object-oriented visual programming environment for musical composition based on Common Lisp. It may also be used as an all-purpose…
- IRCAM IRCAM (French: Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique; English: "Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music") is a French…
- CSIRAC CSIRAC (/ˈsaɪræk/; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer), originally known as CSIR Mk 1, was Australia's first digital computer…