An examination of more than sixty years of successes and failures in developing technologies that allow computers to understand human spoken language.Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film …
Virtual Music is about artificial creativity. Focusing on the author's Experiments in Musical Intelligence computer music composing program, the author and a distinguished group of …
How interactive voice-based technology can tap into the automatic and powerful responses all speech-whether from human or machine-evokes.Interfaces that talk and listen are …
Perspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry.Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic …
The first work to propose a comprehensive musicological framework to study sound-based music, a rapidly developing body of work that includes electroacoustic art music, turntable …
An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience.Spotify provides a streaming service that has …
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists-from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby-describe their work.If Rhythm Science was about …
How a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music.In the 1960s, a …
Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and …
Musicians begin formal training by acquiring a body of musical concepts commonly known as musicianship. These concepts underlie the musical skills of listening, performance, and …
