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Algorithmic Composition: A Guide to Composing Music with Nyquist

Algorithmic Composition: A Guide to Composing Music with Nyquist

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Composers have used formalized procedures to create music throughout history. With the advent of the computer, algorithmic composition allows composers not only to create and experiment with different formalisms, but to hear and evaluate results quickly. Often in algorithmic composition, the composer has only a vague idea how the output will sound, but because the input is highly automated, the composer can make adjustments to take advantage of happy accidents, program bugs, and other creative sources of sound.

Algorithmic Composition: A Guide to Composing Music with Nyquist provides an overview of procedural approaches to music generation. It introduces programming concepts through many examples written using the Nyquist system for music composition and sound synthesis. Nyquist is freely available software, and over 100 program examples from this book are available in electronic form. Readers will be well equipped to develop their own algorithms for composition.

Music students who are learning about computer music and electronic music will all be interested in this innovative book, as generative music becomes an important part of the future of the discipline. Students and scholars in computer science will also find much to interest them, in a straightforward and fun way.

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BrandUniversity of Michigan Press
Pub dateJan 2, 2013
ISBN-100472035231
ISBN-139780472035236
Paperback264.0 pages
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions9 × 0.9 × 6 in
Weight1 lb
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