Composing Interactive Music

Techniques and Ideas Using Max

Todd Winkler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

364 Seiten

1998
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-23193-0 (ISBN)

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Interactive music refers to a composition or improvization in which software interprets live performances to produce music generated or modified by computers. The author presents both the technical and aesthetic possibilities of this area of computer music. Todd Winkler's own numerous compositions have been the laboratory for the research and development that resulted in this book. The author's examples use a graphical programming language called Max. Each example in the text is accompanied by a picture of how it appears on the computer screen. The same examples are included as software on the accompanying CD-ROM, playable on a Macintosh computer with a MIDI keyboard. Although this book is aimed at those interested in writing music and software using Max, the casual reader can learn the basic concepts of interactive compositions by just reading the text, without running any software. The book concludes with a discussion of late-1990s multimedia work incorporating projected images and video playback with sound for concert performances and art installations.

Part 1 Introduction, history and theory: introduction and background; interaction - defining relationships between computers and performers. Part 2 Programming foundation: graphic programming with Max; program structure and design; interface design. Part 3 Core components: the computer as listener - analyzing and storing performance data; composer objects. Part 4 Advanced techniques and concepts: sound design; score objects - compositional strategies, structures, and timing mechanisms; interactive multimedia and new controllers.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.5.1998
Zusatzinfo	198
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 260 mm
Gewicht	953 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
ISBN-10	0-262-23193-X / 026223193X
ISBN-13	978-0-262-23193-0 / 9780262231930
Zustand	Neuware