This page lists the text books for the course and other text to support your reading. As an advanced course you are expected to use reference material to learn independently and support the learning activities.
All of these resources are freely available on the web or available free (to you) through the ANU library website.
Text Books Used in the Course:#
These books will be used frequently in the lectures and workshops. You should get to know them.
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Dannenberg, R. B. Introduction to Computer Music (2nd Edition) (2021). available free online
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Puckette, M. Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2007). available free online
Pd Books and Resources:#
These books help with the Pure Data computer music environment:
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Kreidler, J. Programming Electronic Music in Pd (2013). available free online
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Puckette, M. Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2007). available free online
Gibber Resources:#
Gibber is a complicated system with a number of layers that you can experiment with. The high-level interface for normal computer music making is “gibber” which is an interactive web-based live coding system.
- Main gibber.cc playground
Below Gibber, there are some libraries that you can experiment with separately:
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genish.js playground (for DSP experiments)
SuperCollider and Live Coding Books and Resources#
These books help with the SuperCollider computer music environment:
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Wilson S, Cottle D & Collins N. The SuperCollider Book. MIT Press. (2011). (ANU Library link)
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Collins, N. SuperCollider Tutorial available free online
General Computer Music Books#
These are general reference and research texts on Computer Music, we won’t refer to these explicitly but they can give you further context and inspiration for your SMC journey.
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Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (ANU Library link).
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Müller, M. Fundamentals of Music Processing. Springer (2015) (ANU Library link)
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Dean, RT and McLean, A. The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. Oxford University Press, (2018) (ANU Library link)
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Roads, C. The computer music tutorial. MIT Press (1996) (ANU Library link)
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Rowe, R. Interactive Music Systems: Machine Listening and Composing. The MIT Press (1993) (available online)
Extempore Resources#
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Sorensen, A. Extempore: The design, implementation and application of a cyber-physical programming language (ANU PhD thesis, 2018)
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Sorensen, A, Swift, B, and Riddell, A. The Many Meanings of Live Coding