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- From: skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant))
- Subject: Re: Need computer music textbook
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.072649.5087@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk>
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- Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:26:49 GMT
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- jab@cs.rit.edu (John A Biles) writes:
-
- >A colleague and I will be offering a computer music seminar in
- >the spring quarter to students in our computer science department.
- >This will be the first such seminar here, and will be a fairly
- >high-level survey. We recently purchased some toys to support
- >this and subsequent courses, specifically a Yamaha PSR-400 interfaced
- >to a Mac running Encore. We also got Keynote for our Sun environment
- >(where the students live), which we will use to generate MIDI files
- >that can be brought over to the Mac for "seeing and hearing" with
- >Encore. The Mac, then, will be only a "music machine" and not the
- >primary development environment for student "experiments."
-
- >We are currently trying to find a textbook that surveys the computer
- >music field. I am unaware of anything recent that is broad enough
- >in coverage. Roads's Music Machine of a few years ago provides a
- >good selection of topics, but it is getting a bit long in the tooth.
- >The more recent books I have seen are too focused for a first exposure
- >to computer music issues. Any suggestions?
-
- I think the book "Musical Application of Microprocessors" (I'm not quite
- sure the exactly name at the time of writing) from HAL is the best
- choice.
-
- > - Al Biles (jab@cs.rit.edu)
-