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 …
Between the ages of eighteen months and six years, children acquire about eight words each day without specific instruction or correction, simply through the course of natural …
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 …
An encyclopedic handbook on audio programming for students and professionals, with many cross-platform open source examples and a DVD covering advanced topics.This comprehensive …
How sonically distinctive digital "e;signatures"e;-including reverb, glitches, and autotuning-affect the aesthetics of popular music, analyzed in works by Prince, Lady …
A practitioner's guide to the basic principles of creating sound effects using easily accessed free software.Designing Sound teaches students and professional sound designers to …
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 …
Created in 1985 by Barry Vercoe, Csound is one of the most widely used software sound synthesis systems. Because it is so powerful, mastering Csound can take a good deal of time …
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 …
