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Title: Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts Author: Vari Edited by: Jasia Reichardt Publisher: Studio International Special Issue Year: 1968 Pages: 106 Cybernetic Serendipity is the title of an exhibition that I have elsewhere referred to as a cult event for those interested in using art technology. In 1968 the artist and […]

AA. VV. – Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts

March 19, 2015 in READ tagged Cybernetic Serendipity / Orpheus / Peter Zinovieff by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on March 19, 2015)

thumb_digital_engeering — Title: Digital Audio Engineering: an Anthology Edited by: John Strawn Edition: William Kaufmann Year: 1985 Pages: 144 Series: The Computer Music and Digital Audio The title of this book tells us much as regards to the topics treated within the volume edited by John Strawn for the Computer Music and […]

AA. VV. – Digital Audio Engineering: an Anthology

May 2, 2012 in READ tagged Lucas Film / Samson Box by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 26, 2013)

thumb-foundations-of-computer-music — Title: Foundations of Computer Music Authors: Vari Edited by: Curtis Roads Publisher: The MIT Press Year: 1985 Pages: 712 Foundations of Computer Music is a collection of articles originally published in the Computer Music Journal, then selected and published in a single volume by Curtis Roads.

AA. VV. – Foundations of Computer Music

January 27, 2014 in READ tagged Computer Music / Computer Music Journal / Curtis Roads by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

Senza-titolo-1 — Title: Music by Computers Edited by: Heinz Von Foerster, James W. Beauchamp Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Year: 1969 Pages: 139 Attachment: Four 33 rpm In 1966, during the Fall Joint Computer Conference, held in San Francisco, Heinz von Foerster decided to devote part of the conference to new […]

AA. VV. – Music by Computers

December 30, 2011 in READ tagged Computer Music / Lejaren Hiller / Max Mathews by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on May 5, 2014)

thumb-curtis.roads-the-music-machine.selected-readings-from-computer-music-journal — Title: The Music Machine: Selected Readings From Computer Music Journal Edited by: Curtis Roads Publisher: The MIT Press Year: 1989 Pages: 726 This is a good reference book for those interested to computer music, even for those without any specific knowledge for this specific area of electronic music. This isn’t […]

AA. VV. – The Music Machine

December 28, 2013 in READ tagged Computer Music / Curtis Roads by Alex Di Nunzio

Title: The SuperCollider Book Edited by: Scott Wilson, David Cottle, Nick Collins Publisher: The MIT Press Year: 2011 Pages: 757 The title emphasizes the fact that we are not in front of one of the many books dealing with SuperCollider but faced with an editorial project that stands as the […]

AA. VV. – The SuperCollider Book

April 14, 2014 in READ tagged Supercollider by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)

Title: Xenakis Authors: Various Edited by: Enzo Restagno Publisher: EDT Year: 1988 Pages: 315 After the first chapter of Enzo Restagno, you can read an intervention by the Czech writer Milan Kundera, who writes what distinguishes Iannis Xenakis by all the great composers who lived before him: the latter opposed, with their […]

AA. VV. – Xenakis

December 10, 2014 in READ tagged Iannis Xenakis / UPIC by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on December 10, 2014)

Title: Electronic Music Production Author: Alan Douglas Publisher: Tab Books Year: 1973 Pages: 148 Tab Books is a publishing house of the seventies specializing in publications of technological interest, designed as introductory manuals for issues such as the Hi-Fi, audio in general, technology and electronics for hobbyists and so on.

Alan Douglas – Electronic Music Production

September 1, 2014 in READ tagged MUSYS / Synthi 100 by Alex Di Nunzio

Title: Electronic Music Author: Andy Mackay Publisher: Control Data Publishing Year: 1981 Pages: 124 Andy Mackay, saxophonist of the Roxy Music band, here as a popularizer with a book that offers itself as a small and easy encyclopedia on electronic music.

Andy Mackay – Electronic Music

September 1, 2014 in READ tagged Iannis Xenakis / John Cage / Lejaren Hiller by Alex Di Nunzio

Title: Acoustic Communication Author: Barry Truax Publisher: Ablex Publishing Corporation Year: 1984 (2nd edition 2001) Pages: 244 Barry Truax is a very well-known composer in the field of computer music, both for different works composed with the computer, both for the research carried out since the Seventies around the development of POD […]

Barry Truax – Acoustic Communication

March 4, 2015 in READ tagged Barry Truax / Soundscape by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on July 20, 2018)

thumb_microsound — Author: Curtis Roads Title: Microsound Edition: The MIT Press Year: 2001 Page: 409 Attachment: CDRom Microsound is a book in which Curtis Roads addresses the issue of micro-composition in a computer music perspective, carrying out an examination of the subject through multiple points of view.

Curtis Roads – Microsound

November 12, 2012 in READ tagged Curtis Roads / Microsound by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 29, 2018)

Title: Notes from the metalevel: an introduction to computer composition Author: Heinrich Taube Publisher: Routledge Year: 2005 Pages: 348 Heinrich Taube, Associate Professor and Chair of Composition-Theory at School of Music of the University of Illinois, studied at Stanford with John Chowning and Leland Smith, then electronic music with Hans Peter Haller. Throughout his […]

Heinrich Taube – Notes From the Metalevel: an Introduction to ...

May 30, 2014 in READ tagged Common Music by Alex Di Nunzio (updated on June 24, 2014)