[PD] books

[Rory Walsh]

Elements of Computer Music, Moore, F. R., 
Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1990.

Good Book, all the example code is in C and can be
implemented quite easily into your own programs.

ROry.

 --- Frank Barknecht <barknech at ph-cip.uni-koeln.de>
wrote: > Hi,
> mattn-l at rogers.com hat gesagt: // mattn-l at rogers.com
> wrote:
> 
> > i've been doing a lot of experimentation with
> synthesis for a long
> > time now, and i've even done some
> composing/performing of computer
> > music.  the problem is that i keep running into
> walls while trying
> > to programme my own composition systems, and i
> think it's because i
> > don't have the background in music
> theory/synthesis theory that i
> > need to really get into this stuff.. so my
> question is, can anybody
> > recommend a good all encompassing book that will
> help me get the
> > information i need?  
> 
> I'd like to hear what Miller would recommend, as he
> is teaching this
> stuff as well. What do your students have to read?
> 
> At the moment, I am knee deep into "Computer Music"
> by Charles Dodge
> and Thomas A. Jerse. Asking on various mailing
> lists, this and Curtis
> Roads' "Computer Music Tutorial" always get
> recommended and because
> the both are expensive, I started with Dodge/Jerse,
> the Roads will
> follow. At first I was a bit disapointed, because
> there aren't many
> C++ expamples in the book. All code in "CM" is in
> regard to computer
> composition, a field, that I am not that interested
> in at the moment,
> but you will probably like that. 
> 
> Then I found, that even the non-code descriptions of
> various computer
> music and synthesis topics are very readable and
> instructive. "CM" is
> a great textbook for self-learning IMO and very
> clearly written.
> People say similar things about the Roads, but I
> don't know this book 
> yet.
> 
> I also have the "Csound Book" that does explain way
> more then just the
> things in Csound, but well, it is Csound anyways and
> after my nearly
> complete shift to PD, I don't look into it very
> often anymore. OTOH
> there are way more Csound users than PD users, I
> think, and knowing
> Csound to adapt things for PD is very, very useful.
> Also the Music N
> synthesis languages live on in Csound and you will
> probably meet them
> everywhere. Even Dodge/Jerse often refer to them in
> "Computer Music"
> 
> ciao,
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                                  _
> _______footils__
> 
>  

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