Description

The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music offers a state-of-the-art cross-section of the most field-defining topics and debates in computer music today. A unique contribution to the field, it situates computer music in the broad context of its creation and performance across the range of issues - from music cognition to pedagogy to sociocultural topics - that shape contemporary discourse in the field.
Fifty years after musical tones were produced on a computer for the first time, developments in laptop computing have brought computer music within reach of all listeners and composers. Production and distribution of computer music have grown tremendously as a result, and the time is right for this survey of computer music in its cultural contexts. An impressive and international array of music creators and academics discuss computer music's history, present, and future with a wide perspective, including composition, improvisation, interactive performance, spatialization, sound synthesis, sonification, and modeling. Throughout, they merge practice with theory to offer a fascinating look into computer music's possibilities and enduring appeal.

Features

• Brings together leading scholars, composers, and performers from across the globe to discuss the full range of issues in the field
• Invaluable for students, scholars, and professionals who create, perform, and study computer music
• Features in-depth discussion both of the psychology of computer music and its cultural contexts Based in full and up-to-date coverage of the history and development of computer music Offers fascinating insights into the perspectives of real-time creators and their involvement with their functional interfaces
• A uniquely detailed chronology supplements all of these aspects and places them in the context of musical developments in the larger arena.

Product Details

624 pages; 10 halftones, 35 line illus., 5 music examples; 6 3/4 X 9 3/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-533161-5ISBN10: 0-19-533161-3

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