Interactive Arts Programming

READINGS


Manuals

Dobrian, Christopher. Max Getting Started: Max43GettingStarted.pdf

Dobrian, Christopher. Max Tutorials and Topics: Max43TutorialsAndTopics.pdf

Dobrian, Christopher. Max Reference: Max43Reference.pdf

Dobrian, Christopher. MSP Documentation: MSP43.pdf

Dobrian, Christopher. Max/MSP Tutorial files: for Mac OS X or Windows

Dobrian, Christopher, et al. Jitter Manual: JitterManual.pdf

Dobrian, Christopher, et al. Jitter Tutorial files: for Mac OS X or Windows

Articles

Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines. Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA, 1992. excerpts.

Bregman, Albert S. Auditory scene analysis : the perceptual organization of sound. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. excerpt.

Cope, David. Computers and Musical Style. Madison, WI: A-R Editions, Inc. 1991. pp. 1-26.

Dobrian, Christopher. "Aesthetic Considerations in the Use of 'Virtual' Music Instruments" (.pdf format). (2001) Journal SEAMUS, 2003.

Dobrian, Christopher. "Music and Artificial Intelligence". Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1992. pp. 55-103.

Dobrian, Christopher. "Music Programming". unpublished, 1988.

Dobrian, Christopher. "Programming New Realtime DSP Possibilities with MSP". Proceedings of the the 2nd COST G-6 Workshop on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx99), NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, 1999.

Hofstadter, Douglas R. and the Fluid Analogies Research Group. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. New York: Basic Books, 1995. excerpt.

Hofstadter, Douglas R. and Dennett, Daniel C., eds. The Mind's I. New York: Basic Books, 1981. excerpt.

Lewis, George. "Singing the Alternative Interactivity Blues". Front, 1995, pp. 18-22.

Miller, G. "The magical number 7 ± 2; some limits on our capacity for processing information". Psychology Review, 63, 1956. pp. 87-91.

Moles, Abraham A. Information theory and esthetic perception. Translated by Joel F. Cohen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1968. (Originally published by Flammarian, Paris, 1958.) excerpt.

Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Doubleday, 1990. (First Published in 1988.) pp. 141-145.

Roads, Curtis. The Computer Music Tutorial. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. excerpts.

Rowe, Robert. Interactive Music Systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993. excerpt.

Rowe, Robert. Machine Musicianship. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. excerpt.

Schank, Roger C. and Robert P. Abelson. Scripts, plans, goals, and understanding : an inquiry into human knowledge structures. Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1977. pp. 3-10, 36-42.

Searle, John. "Minds, Brains, and Programs". The Behavioral Brain Sciences, vol 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. excerpt.

Turing, Alan M. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind, 59:236 (1950). excerpt.

Winkler, Todd. Composing Interactive Music: Techniques and Ideas Using Max. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. excerpt.


Christopher Dobrian
April 1, 2004
dobrian@uci.edu