Spectral Music Design

A Computational Approach

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvVictor Lazzarini,Maynooth University) Lazzarini, Victor (Professor of Music, Professor of Music

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Processing audio in the spectral domain has become a practical proposition for a variety of applications in computer music, composition, and sound design, making it an area of significant interest for musicians, programmers, sound designers, and researchers. While spectral processing has been explored already from a variety of perspectives, previous approaches tended to be piecemeal: some dealt with signal processing details, others with a high-level music technology discussion of techniques, some more compositionally focused, and others at music/audio programming concerns. As author Victor Lazzarini argues, the existing literature has made a good footprint in the area but has failed to integrate these various approaches within spectral audio. In Spectral Sound Design: A Computational Approach, Lazzarini provides an antidote. Spectral Sound Design: A Computational Approach gives authors a set of practical tools to implement processing techniques and algorithms in a balanced way, covering application aspects as well the fundamental theory that underpins them, within the context of contemporary and electronic music practice. The book employs a mix of Python for prototyping and Csound for deployment and music programming. The tight integration of these three languages as well as the wide scope offered by the combination (going from embedded to supercomputing, and including web-based and mobile applications) makes it the go-to resource to deal with the practical aspects of the subject.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-20
Mått298 x 222 x 33 mm
Vikt1 383 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor510
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197524015

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Victor Lazzarini completed his doctorate at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he received the Heyman scholarship for research progress and the Hallward composition prize for a large-scale work, Magnificat. His interests include musical signal processing and sound synthesis; computer music languages; electroacoustic and instrumental composition. He joined the Music Department at Maynooth University in 1998 and was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 2014 to 2019.

ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsPart 1: BackgroundChapter 1: What is Spectrum?Chapter 2: A HIstory of SpectrumChapter 3: Fundamental Aspects of Audio and Music SignalsPart 2: Techniques Chapter 4: Continuous and Discrete SpectraChapter 5. Discrete Time, Discrete FrequencyChapter 6. Time -- Frequency ProcessingChapter 7. The Spectra of FiltersChapter 8. Non-Linear Synthesis of SpectraChapter 9. NoisePart 3. DesignChapter 10. Spectral Design in MusicChapter 11. Computer Sound DesignChapter 12. Composing the SpectrumNotes BibliographyIndex

Victor Lazzarini has condensed thirty years of experience of into a dazzlingly lucid resource that will inform and delight all those studying and making spectral music with computers. The book covers both the fundamental and creative aspects of spectral music design, leading through detailed accounts of computer synthesis and digital signal processing to illuminating discussions of how composers and musicians have developed their approaches. This is an indispensable book that provides an excellent technical and artistic foundation for any digital musician.