Bibliography

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.

• Dannenberg, R. B. Introduction to Computer Music (online here)

• Puckette, M. Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2007). available free online

• Blackwell, A. F. et al. Live Coding: A User’s Manual (2022). available free online

Pd Books and Resources:#

These books help with the Pure Data computer music environment:

• Kreidler, J. Programming Electronic Music in Pd (2013). available free online

• Puckette, M. Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2007). available free online

• Martin, C. Introduction to Computer Music with Pure Data (2014). available free online: https://github.com/cpmpercussion/ComputerMusicIntro (examples used in lectures)

Strudel Resources:#

• Main strudel.cc REPL

• Strudel documentation

• Making new sounds in strudel

• Strudel source code

• Paper: “Strudel: Live Coding Patterns on the Web”

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.

• Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (ANU Library link).

• Müller, M. Fundamentals of Music Processing. Springer (2015) (ANU Library link)

• Dean, RT and McLean, A. The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. Oxford University Press, (2018) (ANU Library link)

• Roads, C. The computer music tutorial. MIT Press (1996) (ANU Library link)

• Rowe, R. Interactive Music Systems: Machine Listening and Composing. The MIT Press (1993) (available online)

Extempore Resources#

• Sorensen, A. Extempore: The design, implementation and application of a cyber-physical programming language (ANU PhD thesis, 2018)

• Sorensen, A, Swift, B, and Riddell, A. The Many Meanings of Live Coding

SuperCollider Books and Resources#

These books help with the SuperCollider computer music environment:

• Wilson S, Cottle D & Collins N. The SuperCollider Book. MIT Press. (2011). (ANU Library link)

• Collins, N. SuperCollider Tutorial available free online