This page has suggested reading to help support your learning. As a special topics course, you are expected to review the academic literature to help build your knowledge and understanding of sound and music computing.
All of these resources are freely available on the web or available free (to you) through the ANU library website.
Pd Books and Resources:
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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
SuperCollider and Live Coding Books and Resources
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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
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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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Rowe, R. Interactive Music Systems: Machine Listening and Composing. The MIT Press (1993) (available online)
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Roads, C. The computer music tutorial. MIT Press (1996) (ANU Library link)
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