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This seems nice, introductory and very up-to-date. If I may offer some superficial criticism, I found the covered material was at odds with the title. The title

This seems nice, introductory and very up-to-date. If I may offer some superficial criticism, I found the covered material was at odds with the title. The title evokes themes of algorithmic composition and experimental whole-music generation, while the book is actually about digital synthesizers and effects on a digital signal processing level. Of course I'm having a hard time coming up with anything better, but maybe in the lines of "Audio Programming for Music", "Music DSP for Programmers", "Digital Synthesizers and Effects"...

jointpdf 6y ago
On that note, what some favorite (ideally freely available) lectures/notes/books on the subjects of algorithmic composition and generative music? Ready, go:
- jointpdf 6y ago
  /chirp https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cricket-chirping-algorithm-for-multi-objective-Deuri-Sathya/1ef3bf324a5f429db3252b59a8e3c781f6db3c4c https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cricket-chirping-algor...
rorykoehler 6y ago
My first thought was the same. Swapping "music" for "audio" would probably work. On a side note is generative music even music? (I think it can be but) According to my undergrad music prof the answer would be no, it would be classified as "not music", same as bird song. I've since seen research that refutes her birdsong claim (she wrote extensively on it) but I'm curious what the general consensus is?
- TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
  There is no general consensus. It's a work in progress. But given that a fair amount of post-war contemporary classical was written using aleatoric techniques - basically constrained randomisation - and no one had a problem thinking of it as music, and modern generative music can be far more sophisticated both culturally and structurally, I think your prof was just plain biased and wrong. See also: digital photography isn't real photography, vinyl is better than FLAC, computers will never play chess/go, etc.
- detaro 6y ago
  Curious what your prof thinks about Mozart's Dice. Pretty much any generative art is still shaped by the artists input and choices.
- tripzilch 6y ago
  A lot of modern electronic music actually has generative elements in it. Granular synthesis is very often random-based, though it's more in between an audio effect and generative. Especially in modular synthesis there exist very advanced and interesting arpeggiator modules. I know for a fact that these techniques are used during certain psy-trance livesets (forest psy, among other things). I mean you still could argue it's not music, but I bet the audience on the dance floor disagrees.

jointpdf 6y ago

On that note, what some favorite (ideally freely available) lectures/notes/books on the subjects of algorithmic composition and generative music? Ready, go:

jointpdf 6y ago
/chirp https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cricket-chirping-algorithm-for-multi-objective-Deuri-Sathya/1ef3bf324a5f429db3252b59a8e3c781f6db3c4c https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cricket-chirping-algor...

rorykoehler 6y ago

My first thought was the same. Swapping "music" for "audio" would probably work. On a side note is generative music even music? (I think it can be but) According to my undergrad music prof the answer would be no, it would be classified as "not music", same as bird song. I've since seen research that refutes her birdsong claim (she wrote extensively on it) but I'm curious what the general consensus is?

TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
There is no general consensus. It's a work in progress. But given that a fair amount of post-war contemporary classical was written using aleatoric techniques - basically constrained randomisation - and no one had a problem thinking of it as music, and modern generative music can be far more sophisticated both culturally and structurally, I think your prof was just plain biased and wrong. See also: digital photography isn't real photography, vinyl is better than FLAC, computers will never play chess/go, etc.
detaro 6y ago
Curious what your prof thinks about Mozart's Dice. Pretty much any generative art is still shaped by the artists input and choices.
tripzilch 6y ago
A lot of modern electronic music actually has generative elements in it. Granular synthesis is very often random-based, though it's more in between an audio effect and generative. Especially in modular synthesis there exist very advanced and interesting arpeggiator modules. I know for a fact that these techniques are used during certain psy-trance livesets (forest psy, among other things). I mean you still could argue it's not music, but I bet the audience on the dance floor disagrees.