Music 51
Music Technology and Computers

University of California, Irvine


READINGS

Cage, John. Experimental Music. (1957) Silence. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1967. (Originally published by The Wesleyan University Press, 1991.) pp. 3-17.

Cage, John. The Future of Music: Credo. (1937) Silence. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1967. (Originally published by The Wesleyan University Press, 1991.) pp. 3-17.

Cope, David. Experiments in Musical Intelligence website.

Dobrian, Christopher. Digital Audio. Published as ""How Digital Audio Works" in MSP: The Documentation. Santa Cruz, CA: Cycling '74, 1997.

Dobrian, Christopher. Music Programming. Unpublished, 1988.

Oswald, John. Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative. Presented to the Wired Society Electro-Acoustic Conference in Toronto, 1985.

Russolo, Luigi. The Art of Noises. Barclay Brown, transl. New York: Pendragon Press, 1986. pp. 23-30.

Turing, Alan M. Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 59:433-460, 1950.

Varèse, Edgard. The Liberation of Sound. (1936, 1939, 1959, 1962) Chou Wen-chung, ed. Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 5, No. 1. (Autumn-Winter, 1966), pp. 11-19. (Note: This article is accessible from the UCI campus local area network, or remotely using VPNClient software. You can access a text-only version of the article elsewhere on the web.)

More readings will be posted here as they are assigned.


November 23, 2007
Christopher Dobrian
dobrian@uci.edu