csound book

Date	1997-12-08 15:14
From	james@maths.ex.ac.uk
Subject	csound book
	owner-csound-outgoing wrote >From owner-csound-outgoing Mon Dec 8 05:00:59 1997 From: owner-csound-outgoing Date: Mon, 8 Dec 97 05:00:59 GMT Message-Id: <360.9712080500@maths.exeter.ac.uk> To: owner-csound-outgoing Subject: BOUNCE Csound: Non-member submission from [Richard Boulanger ] >From rcb@tiac.net Mon Dec 8 05:00:40 1997 remote from Received: from hermes.ex.ac.uk by maths.exeter.ac.uk; Mon, 8 Dec 97 05:00:40 GMT Received: from aleve.media.mit.edu [18.85.2.171] by hermes via ESMTP (FAA21081); Mon, 8 Dec 1997 05:00:27 GMT Received: from [204.215.140.178] (rcb.tiac.net [204.215.140.178]) by aleve.media.mit.edu (8.8.7/ML970927) with ESMTP id AAA13166 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 00:03:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 00:03:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: csound From: Richard Boulanger Subject: The Csound Book Dear Csound Here is some information about the book and CD-ROM which MIT press is publishing and I am editing. It should be available this summer. Richard Boulanger ============== THE CSOUND BOOK: Tutorials in Software Synthesis and Sound Design Edited by RICHARD BOULANGER Forward by "Csound Author" Barry Vercoe Preface by "The Father of Computer Music" Max Mathews With Contributions from Over Fifty of the World's Leading Computer Music Composers, Researchers and Educators Plus a bonus CD-ROM Entitled: USING CSOUND: Research, Commercial and Artistic Applications Featuring: - Csound Software for Windows95, Macintosh and Linux - The Complete Csound Source Code - The Csound Reference Manual in HTML - Additional Csound Tutorials in HTML and JAVA - Utility Programs Including Cecilia & Patchwork - The Amsterdamn Catalog in HTML - Composer Profiles and Perspectives on Csound - A Large Collection of Complete Csound Compositions - Tutorials on NetSound - Tutorials on Audification and Medical Applications - Tutorials in Algorithmic Composition and Cscore - All the Instruments from the Book - Thousands of Additional Csound Instruments and Effects The MIT PRess - Cambridge, Massachusetts - London England ============== The dedication of the book reads: ============== This book is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Robert Cooper Through his music and his evangelization of Csound, so many young musicians came to see the light. ============== The table of contents reads: ============== THE CSOUND BOOK: Tutorials in Software Synthesis and Sound Design Edited by RICHARD BOULANGER I. Introduction Richard Boulanger II. Preface Max Mathews III. Forward Barry Vercoe IV. Acknowledgments Richard Boulanger V. Dedication PART I: SYNTHESIS - SOUND DESIGN & MODELLING CSOUND FUNDAMENTALS 1. Elementary Sound Design and Synthesis Boulanger 2. Elementary Composition: Recontextualizing Ambient Music Cascone 3. Elementary Operations: Compiling an Orchestra and Score ffitch 4. Understanding Function Tables Nelson 5. Optimizing Instruments Smaragdis IMITATIVE SYNTHESIS 6. Designing Acoustically Viable Instruments Beck 7. Designing Legato Instruments Dobson 8. Wavetable Synthesis of the French Horn Horner/Ayers 9. FM Synthesis and Morphing - Trumpet to Bell to Voice Evans 10. Modelling Classic Keyboard Instruments Mikelson ALGORITHMIC SYNTHESIS 11. A Survey of Classic Synthesis Techniques Fischman 12. Granular Synthesis Lee 13. Exploring fof and fog Synthesis Clarke 14. Processing Samples with fof Villez MATHEMATICAL MODELS 15. Random Numbers, Noise and Chaos ffitch 16. Constrained Random Event Generation and Retriggering Pinkston 17. Using Global Instruments for Meta-Parameter Control Dupras 18. Mathematical Modelling: From Waveguides to Chaos Mikelson 19. Hearing the Mandelbrot Set: Composing Fractal Music Evans MIDI INSTRUMENTS AND REALTIME PERFORMANCE 20. Realtime Synthesis with MIDI Control Berry 21. Microtonal Synthesis and Control with MIDI Alves 22. MIDI Instrument Design S. Vercoe 23. MIDI Designs for Realtime Performance Maldonado PART II: PROCESSING - CROSSSYNTHESIS & RESYNTHESIS UNDERSTANDING SIGNAL PROCESSING THROUGH CSOUND 24. An Introduction to Signal Processing with Csound Spjut 25. Designing Butterworth and Chebyshev Filters Katsianos 26. Using Spectral Data Types B. Vercoe DELAY, CHORUS, REVERBERATION AND 3D AUDIO 27. Understanding Delay Lines and their Applications Pinkston 28. Reverberation Design Lyon 29. Sound Localization McIntyre/Breder WORKING WITH CSOUND'S SIGNAL PROCESSING UTILITIES 30. Convolution: Traditional and Novel Applications Spjut 31. The Phase Vocoder and Extensions Karpen 32. Working with lpc and adsyn Klapper MODELLING COMMERCIAL SIGNAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS 33. Efficient Implementation of Analog Waveshaping Pochino 34. Modelling a Multi-Effects Processor Mikelson PART III: PROGRAMMING - EXTENDING THE LANGUAGE ADDING OPCODES 35. Adding New Unit Generators to Csound Resibois 36. Implementing MIDI Opcodes in Csound Maldonado 37. Extending Csound ffitch PART IV: REFERENCE - THE CSOUND MANUAL THE MANUAL Csound: A Manual for the Audio Processing System Vercoe ============== =============================================================== Dr. Richard Boulanger Professor Music Synthesis Department Berklee College of Music 1140 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02215-3693 Berklee Phone: (617) 747-2485 Berklee Fax: (617) 536-2257 =============================================================== email: rcb@media.mit.edu * rcb@tiac.net * rboulanger@berklee.edu webpage: http://www.tiac.net/users/rcb =============================================================== my heart... your beat =============================================================== -- James Andrews, maths CDO, ext.3977