computer music books from MIT press humble bundle 2019
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The Audio Programming Book2011917Practical lessons to teach audio programming in C and C++. Heavy emphasis on CSound. Some obsolete XCode stuff.software developmentYes. 4GB DVD. Extensive.
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Machine Muscianship2001412Algorithmic composition, ML, neural networks, analysis of musical forms. C++ examples from a custom framework called Machine Musicianship.Analysis. Statistical models of musical forms.Yes. Obsolete CodeWarrior C++ projects.
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Composing Interactive Music1998365Techniques for composing music with Max and MIDI.MIDI compositionYes. Obsolete. Binaries will not run. Patches are written for Max 3
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Waves and Forms - Electronic Music Devices and Computer Encodings in China2015295How citizens in mainland China compose music with technology. References the term "science and technology studies" (STS) frequently.Cultural studies.no
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Music and the Making of Modern Science2014357How math and science are related to innovations in music compositionHistoryno
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Virtual Music - Computer Synthesis of Musical Style2001580A discussion of the Emmy bot that composes Mozart and Back from the Stanford Experiments in Musical Intelligence project.Algorithmic composition. Machine Learning.Yes. mp3 files of source material and some generated results.
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The Csound Book2000784A book about the computer music platform Csound. Might be a little obsolete since I don't think CPU speed in 2000 was fast enough to do realtime rendering from Csound.Composition. Synthesis.Yes. Some obsolete binaries. suppliment is all HTML with graphs and figures. A bunch of Csound source code.
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Music and Probability2007257How discreet probability and Baysian statistics can be used for algorithmic composition and analysis of music.Analysis. Baysian statistics. Algorithmic composition.no
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Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound1999387Academic essays from Stanford CCRMA about anatomy, musical perception, psychoacoustics and neurology.Psychoacoustics, neurology and software developent.Yes. ANSI C examples, Csound orchestra files, MIDI files and some phase vocoder thing called pvoc.
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The Origins of Musicality20181121A definition of the word "biomusicology". Cognition, perception and how that relates to musical forms.Biomusicologyno
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Digital Signatures - The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound2016499The classic "analog versus digital" debate, from the side of popular musicians who pioneered early digital productions techniques. Kate Bush, Squarepusher, Portishead, et, al.Musicologyno
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Playing with Sound -
A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games		2013413Theoretical writing on sound design for interactive environments, mostly video games. Second Life is discussed.Interactive sound designno
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SOUND UNBOUND - Sampling Digital Music and Culture2008870A collection of cultural studies essays about future visions of creativity as we leave the anthropocene. Edited by professional cool guy DJ Spooky AKA Paul D. Miller AKA That Subliminal KidCultural Studiesno
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The Producer as Composer -

Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music		2005359A cultural studies book presenting how recorded music changed the creative process as well as the listening process of the audience. Starts with a Kool Herc quote, mentions Phil Spektor and Trent Reznor and Brian Wilson.Cultural Studiesno
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VOICE -

Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media		2010903A collection of cultural studies essays about future visions of the conceptual "voice". Some titles refer to the human vocal system, others the metaphor of "having a voice". There's an essay on Machinima. In the MIT Press series titled Leonardo.Cultural Studiesno
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SONIC WARFARE -
Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear		2010594A book about how sound is used as a weapon, literally. References Deleuze and Guattari.Cultural Studiesno
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