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Resources: Computer Music and Other Technology

Computer Music
Organology
Composition (It now has it's own page.)

General Composition
Harmony and Voice-leading
Counterpoint
Arranging and Transcription
Orchestration and Instrumentation
Notation
Atonality, Serial Procedures, etc.
Music Production and Technology (It now has it's own page.)
General Music Technology and Production
Recording
Synthesis, Sampling and Effects Processing
Signal Processing and DSP
MIDI and Sequencing
Mixing, Mastering, DAWs and PA
Software
Electro-Acoustic Music
Audiophilia, Recordings and Archiving

Computer Music

The best general books are:
Boulanger et al., The Csound Book---not strictly general (it deals with the Csound language), but it contains valuable articles on composition and performance as well as synthesis.
Dodge and Jerse, Computer Music---The first edition was the definitive reference for many basic synthesis techniques.  We haven't yet seen the second edition, but have high hopes for it, though it is supposed to have been largely re-written.
Rhodes, The Computer Music Tutorial---an exhaustively broad treatment which, we must say, suffers somewhat from a lack of technical depth. Though it could be more concise, it is a good overview.
other good books:
Miranda, Computer Sound Synthesis for the Electronic Musician---a good book for musicians, light on mathematics.
Kirk and Hunt, Digital Sound Processing for Music and Multimedia---an important text for both programmers and musicians.
Roads (Editor), Musical Signal Processing---including control signal synthesis.
Steiglitz, A DSP Primer: With Applications to Digital Audio and Computer Music---a good first text on digital signal processing, geared towards the computer musician.
Brinkman, Pascal Programming for Music Research---an introduction to procedural programming for music theorists.
Kientzle, A Programmer's Guide to Sound---a guide to file formats, common techniques etc.
Pope (Editor), The Well-Tempered Object: Musical Applications of Object-Oriented Software Technology---OO? see also Rusty.
Winsor, Computer Composer's Toolbox---very practical. (Interestingly, his earlier book, Automated Music Composition, was funded by a grant from the National Science Council of the Republic of China. Is human composition reactionary?  We don't know anymore.)
Cope, The Algorithmic Composer---techniques for emulating compositional styles.
Cope, Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style---eagerly awaited; developments in a fascinating project of mimicry.
Schaffer and McGee, Knowledge-Based Programming for Music Research---applications of AI to music.
Todd and Loy (Editors), Music and Connectionism---neural networks in computer music.
Hewlett and Selfridge-Field (Editors), Melodic Similarity: Concepts, Procedures, and Applications---excellent work in musicological computing.
Selfridge-Field (Editor), Beyond Midi: The Handbook of Musical Codes---a standard reference for music representation.

This large Bibliography appears to need an update.
Computer Music Journal---the principal journal in the field; largely technical. Their site has excellent resources.
Leonardo Music Journal---deals mainly with aesthetical aspects.
Journal of New Music Research---often deals with computer music and music technology.
The International Computer Music Association (ICMA)---conducts the annual International Computer Music Conference (ICMC).
Harmony Central---very practical information, especially for MIDI and audio programming.
Csound---Implementing all known synthesis techniques and always free, it is easily the best language for synthesis and signal processing. It's normally used to render scores, which it can do with dazzling flexibility.  The above site has many resources of which Csound Magazine is particularly good; we too have some Csound material available here.
There are several languages for composing music, but we're afraid they're not worth recommending---we have this to say about that.
Music Encoding Standards---a directory.
Arachnaut's Lair; Electronic Music---a huge directory, very useful.
The Role of Computer Technology in Music and Musicology---by no means a comprehensive taste of the field.
Courses of study in Sound and Computer Music---in case you'd like to get terribly serious about this.
 

Organology

CIMCIM---the International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections, lists many collections.
The Institute of Musical Instrument Technology---a professional society for instrument makers.
The Shrine to Music Museum---at Vermillion, perhaps the most interesting organological museum.
Electronic Musical Instruments 1870 - 1990---an excellent online museum.
Experimental Musical Instruments---an extremely useful journal and organization devoted to study and experimentation.
The Musical Instrument Makers Forum---a great deal of practical information.
Oddmusic---a site and discussion group for experimental music, focused particularly on experimental instruments.
Flute History---articles and reference tools.
The taxonomy of free reed instruments---beautifully done.
Audsley, Art of Organ Building (Volume 1 of 2)---
Audsley et al., Art of Organ Building (Volume 2 of 2)---a classic, synthesists as well as carpenters should take note of it.

interesting case studies:
Marxophone---
Optigan---
 

Electro-Acoustic Music

Books:
Chadabe, Electronic Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music---the definitive history of the subject.
Vail, Vintage Synthesizers: Pioneering Designers, Groundbreaking Instruments, Collecting Tips, Mutants of Technology, 2nd Updated edition---an history of technological development.
Norman (Editor), A Poetry of Reality: Composing With Recorded Sound---musique concrète techniques.

Electronic Music Foundation---an access to materials and information. Excellent.
SEAMUS---the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.
the EMUSIC-L Page---a mailing list devoted to electronic music composition and performance.
The Institute of Sonology---the birthplace of sonology.
Analog Tape Recorders---a good introduction.
Arachnaut's Lair; Electronic Music---a huge directory, very useful.
History of Electronic and Computer Music Including Automatic Instruments and Composition Machines---a timeline.
 

Audiophilia, Recordings and Archiving

Gardner, 3-D Audio Using Loudspeakers---advanced techniques involving video tracking and cancellation.
Irwin Chusid, Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music---an excellent introduction outsider recordings.

Soundfields with depth and transparency!  Audiophilia is a field rife with marketing and pseudo-science.
You are there, they are here.  Beware!
Andrew's Recommendations---this huge directory is the best.
The Museum of Sound Recording---the history of recorded sound.
The Phonograph Makers' Pages---hobbyists and archivists making modern equipment to reproduce antique cylinders (and even cylinder molds). Fascinating and admirable.
Tinfoil---early recorded sounds & wax cylinders.
Nipperhead---antique phonography.
Magnetic Tape and Digital Media Life Expectancies---a well-done exposition, essential to archivists.
TapeTracker---a shareware database for tape collectors.

Unusual Recordings:
The Secret Museum of the Air---the rarest recordings in the world, by Citizen Kafka and Pat Conte of WFMU. Absolutely wonderful.
flexi-, cardboard and oddity records---an internet museum from WFMU.
The American Song-Poem Archive---the results from "lyrics set to music" advertisements; an excellent online museum.
Incorrect Music---a delightful program and resource for outsider music.
8-Track Heaven---nostalgia for 8-track tape. The Director posseses an 8-track of "concertina panemonium" of which he is quite fond.
Archeoacoustics---unintentional sound recordings of great antiquity.
The Acheoacoustic Player---an attempt at recovering ancient sounds.
The "Music of Earth"---recordings of naturally-occuring radio phenomena.
Fish Acoustics---delightful.
 
 

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