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Author : Teresa Maribel Sanchez
Release : 2010
Genre : Mashups (Music)
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Book Synopsis Recombinant Music by : Teresa Maribel Sanchez
Download or read book Recombinant Music written by Teresa Maribel Sanchez. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Cope
Release : 2004-01-30
Genre : Computers
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Book Synopsis Virtual Music by : David Cope
Download or read book Virtual Music written by David Cope. This book was released on 2004-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 experts discuss many of the issues surrounding the program, including artificial intelligence, music cognition, and aesthetics. The book is divided into four parts. The first part provides a historical background to Experiments in Musical Intelligence, including examples of historical antecedents, followed by an overview of the program by Douglas Hofstadter. The second part follows the composition of an Experiments in Musical Intelligence work, from the creation of a database to the completion of a new work in the style of Mozart. It includes, in sophisticated lay terms, relatively detailed explanations of how each step in the process contributes to the final composition. The third part consists of perspectives and analyses by Jonathan Berger, Daniel Dennett, Bernard Greenberg, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Steve Larson, and Eleanor Selfridge-Field. The fourth part presents the author's responses to these commentaries, as well as his thoughts on the implications of artificial creativity. The book (and corresponding Web site) includes an appendix providing extended musical examples referred to and discussed in the book, including composers such as Scarlatti, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Debussy, Bartok, and others. It is also accompanied by a CD containing performances of the music in the text.
Author : Paul Messaris
Release : 2006
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 401/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Digital Media by : Paul Messaris
Download or read book Digital Media written by Paul Messaris. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this must-have new anthology, top media scholars explore the leading edge of digital media studies to provide a broad, authoritative survey of the study of the field and a compelling preview of future developments. This book is divided into five key areas - video games, digital images, the electronic word, computers and music, and new digital media - and offers an invaluable guide for students and scholars alike.
Author : Colin Beardon
Release : 2002
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 390/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Digital Creativity by : Colin Beardon
Download or read book Digital Creativity written by Colin Beardon. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting highlights from five years of the field journal Digital Creativity , this volume republishes twenty-seven contributions from international artists and scientists.
Author : Robert Fink
Release : 2018-09-18
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis The Relentless Pursuit of Tone by : Robert Fink
Download or read book The Relentless Pursuit of Tone written by Robert Fink. This book was released on 2018-09-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how "sound" functions in an equally wide array of popular music. Ranging from the twang of country banjoes and the sheen of hip-hop strings to the crunch of amplified guitars and the thump of subwoofers on the dance floor, this volume bridges the gap between timbre, our name for the purely acoustic characteristics of sound waves, and tone, an emergent musical construct that straddles the borderline between the perceptual and the political. Essays engage with the entire history of popular music as recorded sound, from the 1930s to the present day, under four large categories. "Genre" asks how sonic signatures define musical identities and publics; "Voice" considers the most naturalized musical instrument, the human voice, as racial and gendered signifier, as property or likeness, and as raw material for algorithmic perfection through software; "Instrument" tells stories of the way some iconic pop music machines-guitars, strings, synthesizers-got (or lost) their distinctive sounds; "Production" then puts it all together, asking structural questions about what happens in a recording studio, what is produced (sonic cartoons? rockist authenticity? empty space?) and what it all might mean.
