CHRISTOPHER DOBRIAN
Articles and Publications

• Manuals
  • Max User's Manual (1990) originally published by Opcode Systems, Inc., now published by Cycling '74.
    
  • Getting Started With Max (1995) originally published by Opcode Systems, Inc., now published by Cycling '74.
    
  • Max Reference Manual (1995) originally published by Opcode Systems, Inc., now published by Cycling '74.
    
  • Max Manual Addendum (1996) originally published by Opcode Systems, Inc., now published by Cycling '74.
    
  • MSP: The Documentation (1997, rev. 1998) published by Cycling '74 and l'IRCAM.
  • Jitter Manual (2002, co-author) published by Cycling '74.
  
  
• Articles on Computer Music
  • Music Programming (1988)
    
  • Music and Language (1993)
    
  • Music and Artificial Intelligence (1993)
    
  • Algorithmic Generation of Temporal Form:
    Hierarchical Organization of Stasis and Transition (1995), published in the proceedings of the 1995 International Computer Music Conference and the proceedings of the 1995 International Symposium of Electronic Art.
    
  • ICMC Studio Report: iEAR Studios (1995), published in the proceedings of the 1995 International Computer Music Conference.
  • Digital Audio (1997), from MSP: The Documentation published by Cycling '74 and l'IRCAM
  • Computer Pitch Techniques in Musical Composition (1998), published in the proceedings of the 1998 International Symposium on Music and Computers (Corfu).
  • Programming New Realtime DSP Possibilities with MSP (1999), published in the proceedings of the the 2nd COST G-6 Workshop on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx99), NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
  • Aesthetic Considerations in the Use of "Virtual" Music Instruments (.pdf format) (2001), originally submitted for the CHI Workshop on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, April 1 & 2, 2001, Seattle, WA, USA, accepted for the Workshop on Current Research Directions in Computer Music, Institut Universitari de l'Audiovisual, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2001, also presented in the national conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), Iowa City, Iowa, USA, April 2002, and published in Journal SEAMUS, Spring 2003.
  • Gestural Control of Music Using the Vicon 8 Motion Capture System (.pdf format) (2003), with Frédéric Bevilacqua, published in the proceedings of the 2003 New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • Cultural 'Content' in Korean Music Made With Computers (.pdf format) (2003), scheduled for publication in the 2004 Journal of the Yonsei Korean Studies Forum, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
  • Strategies for Continuous Pitch and Amplitude Tracking in Realtime Interactive Improvisation Software (.pdf format) (2004), published in the proceedings of the 2004 Sound and Music Computing conference (SMC04) in Paris, France.
  • The 'E' In NIME (.pdf format) (2006), published in the proceedings of the 2006 conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME '06) in Paris, France.
  
  
• Articles on Music Theory
  • Thoughts on Composition and Improvisation (1991)
    
  • Music and Language (1993)
    
  • Textural Orchestration (1993)