On sonic art /
Wishart, Trevor, 1946-
On sonic art / by Trevor Wishart. - New and rev. ed / edited by Simon Emmerson. - Amsterdam : Harwood Academic, 1996. - xiv, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + compact disc. - Contemporary music studies ; v. 12 . - Contemporary music studies ; v. 12 (Oxford, Routledge). .
Previous ed.: York: Imagineering, 1985. Includes compact disc (CD) containing many of the musical examples featured in the text.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The author looks at developments in music made possible by computers and digital information processing. After discussing Western music and traditional acoustic theories, he examines topics such as musical organisation of complex sounds, using and manipulating representational sounds and the spatial motion of sounds.
3718658461 : 371865847X (pbk.) : £15.00
GB96Z2810 bnb
Computer composition.
Computer music.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
781.34
On sonic art / by Trevor Wishart. - New and rev. ed / edited by Simon Emmerson. - Amsterdam : Harwood Academic, 1996. - xiv, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + compact disc. - Contemporary music studies ; v. 12 . - Contemporary music studies ; v. 12 (Oxford, Routledge). .
Previous ed.: York: Imagineering, 1985. Includes compact disc (CD) containing many of the musical examples featured in the text.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The author looks at developments in music made possible by computers and digital information processing. After discussing Western music and traditional acoustic theories, he examines topics such as musical organisation of complex sounds, using and manipulating representational sounds and the spatial motion of sounds.
3718658461 : 371865847X (pbk.) : £15.00
GB96Z2810 bnb
Computer composition.
Computer music.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
781.34