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

• Offers full historical coverage of the development and growth of computer music
• Features in depth discussion both of the psychology of computer music and of its cultural contexts
• Gives fascinating insights into the perspectives of computer music composers
• Concludes with a detailed chronology of developments in the field, 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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