| Series |
Computer music and digital audio series ; v. 19
Computer music and digital audio series ; v. 19. ^A664906
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| Contents |
Introduction sound improvisation and computers -- Environment and antecedents. -- Computers as cultural forces -- Antecedents. -- Instruments and software -- Compositional ideas -- Early interactive electronic ensembles -- Into the interface instrument computer. -- Handling the hardware. -- Digital performance instruments -- Mixers and beyond dedicated digital sound processing hardware -- Hyperinstruments -- Entering the interface. -- Interfaces for sound control -- Properties of the interface -- After the interface the sound sources -- The computer as semiotic interface -- Sound routes and MIDI maps. -- Algorithmic processing of sound and meta-sound. -- Analysis -- Manipulation -- Generation -- Precision, multiplicity, and overlaying features -- Hyperimprovisation the software shoots. -- Software media for improvisation. -- Historic contributions -- Improvisatory software for MIDI stream generation -- Improvisatory software for audio generation and modification DSP -- Improvisatory looping -- Generative software for sound -- Specialized functional objectives of generative and other software rhythm engines and other mechanisms -- A case history the algorithmic and interactive production of music related to drum n bass -- Speaking locally. -- A conceptual synopsis of possibilities in solo and networked computer interactive sound improvisation -- Three case studies of networked computer interactive sound improvisation -- A chronological synopsis of computer interactive sound improvisation -- Some future possibilities -- Mixing the sounds. -- The timbres and shapes of sounds in computer interactive improvisation -- The interaction of sound with words and images -- Christopher Yavelow's music is the message -- Notes and annotations into the ear and eye. -- The hub two albums on artifact -- Per Anders Nilsson random rhapsody -- The austraLYSIS electroband two albums on tall poppies and future music records -- Annotations on a selection of electroacoustic improvisation, some antecedents to computer interactive work -- Into the ether. -- Into the memory and across the ether. -- CD-ROMS, DVD-ROMS, and distribution of materials for computer interactive sound improvisation -- Improvisation across the ether: immersion -- Some futures of computer interactive sound. -- Evolving futures. -- Improvising sound emergence -- Computers in the analysis and modeling of sound improvisation -- The computer as improviser -- Utility and exploitation -- Evolution -- Appendices. -- Appendix 1 the questionnaire and selected responses -- Appendix 2 the CD-ROM -- References, selected bibliography, and discography -- Web and software resources -- Index. |
| Abstract |
Hyperimprovisation is the first book to focus on the unique potential of computer-interactive sound improvisation. Instrumental improvisation, through the intermediacy of computers, allows musicians to create and modify large scale and long term structures at a highly polyphonic level, yet still in real-time. Computers also allow the construction of hyperinstruments, with many levels of explicit control of sound generation and transformation. Further, networked improvisation allows mutual?or competitive!? adaptation of the performing interfaces and mechanisms by several performers, again, in real-time. The achievements and future possibilities of the ?hyperimprovisation? which is released by computer technology are explored in this book. |
| General note | Part of the accompanying CD-ROM contains compact disc audio. The rest of the CD-ROM contains software modules (Mac only), software patches (Mac only), Web and CD-ROM pieces (cross-platform), compressed audio (cross-platform), compressed audio/image (cross-platform) and other items (Mac only). |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note | "References, selected bibliography, and discography": pages 185-198. |
| Bibliography note | "Web and software resources": pages 199-200. |
| LCCN | 2002027978 |
| ISBN | 0895795086 |
