Music 215 - Music Technology
MATERIALS

University of California, Irvine


Readings

Listenings

Links

Events


Readings

Roads, Curtis, et al. The Computer Music Tutorial, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996. The single greatest concentration of computer music information.

Dodge, Charles and Thomas A. Jerse. Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance, 2nd ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997.

Moore, F. Richard. Elements of Computer Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990.

Loy, Gareth. Musimathics, v. 1 and 2. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006.

Cope, David. The algorithmic composer. Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 2000.

Cope, David. Computer models of musical creativity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.

Cope, David. Computers and musical style. Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 1991.

Cope, David. Experiments in musical intelligence. Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 1996.

Miranda, Eduardo Reck. Composing music with computers. Oxford; Boston: Focal Press, 2001.

Miranda, Eduardo Reck. Computer sound synthesis for the electronic musician. Oxford; Boston: Focal Press, 1998.

Miranda, Eduardo Reck. Computer sound design: synthesis techniques and programming. Oxford; Boston: Focal Press, 2002.

Miranda, Eduardo Reck. New digital musical instruments: control and interaction beyond the keyboard. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2006.

Miranda, Eduardo Reck. A-life for music: music and computer models of living systems. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2011.

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

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

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.

Kahn, Douglas. Noise, water, meat : a history of sound in the arts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

Manovich, Lev. The language of new media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Montfort, Nick. New media reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

Harries, Dan. The new media book. London: BFI Publications, 2002.

Leonardo Journal

Leonardo Music Journal

Computer Music Journal

Listenings

Dobrian, Christopher. Computer Music

Links

Page of links from last quarter's Music 215 class.

Website of David Cope, including writings, compositions, and software.

Whitney Music Box by Jim Bumgardner, software realization of phase relationships between geometry, time, and musical tone.

An Essay on the New Aesthetic by Bruce Sterling.

Events

Friday April 6: Wendy MacKay and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), Informatics Lecture, Donald Bren Hall, Room 6011, 3:00 pm.

Wednesday April 10: Conversations on the Artistic Process: Michael Dessen, Sheron Wray, Anika Solveig, CAC Colloquium Room 3201, 5:00 pm.

Saturday April 14: Menahem Pressler, piano master class, Winfred Smith Hall, 1:00 pm.

Saturday April 14: Hossein Omoumi and friends, Persian music concert, Winifred Smith Hall, 8:00 pm, $11 student.

Wednesday April 18: Kelly Moran, ICIT MFA recital, Winifred Smith Hall, 7:00 pm.

Thursday April 19: "Ghetto Theresienstadt and Hitler's Unwitting Musical Gifts", lecture by Bob Elias and performance by UCI students' Amati string quartet, Winifred Smith Hall, 8:00 pm.

Saturday April 21: Yunxiang Gao, ICIT MFA recital, Music and Media Building, Room 218 (Motion Capture Studio), 5:00 pm.

Saturday April 21: Daniel Shindarov violin and Nina Scolnik piano, faculty chamber series concert, Winifred Smith Hall, 8:00 pm, $11 student.

Thursday April 26: Mark Applebaum, "Musical Collisions", Gassmann Electronic Music Series lecture-demonstration, Winifred Smith Hall, 4:30 pm.

Thursday April 26: Mark Applebaum, "Electromadness", Gassmann Electronic Music Series concert, Winifred Smith Hall, 8:00 pm.

Saturday April 28: Joe-less Shoe, jazz trio, faculty chamber series concert, Winifred Smith Hall, 8:00 pm, $11 student.

Saturday May 5: Josh Ottum, ICIT MFA recital, Winifred Smith Hall, 2:00 pm.


This page was last modified April 9, 2012.
Christopher Dobrian, dobrian@uci.edu