The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music

Table of Contents 1 Introduction: The many futures of computer music. Roger T. Dean Section I: Some histories of computer music and its technologies 2. A historical view of computer music technology Douglas Keislar 3. Early hardware and early ideas in computer music - their development and their current forms Paul Doornbusch 4. Sound synthesis using computers Peter Manning Section II: The Music 5. Computational approaches to composition of notated instrumental music: Xenakis and the other pioneers James Harley 6. Envisaging improvisation in future computer music Roger T. Dean Section III: Sounding Out 7. Computer music: some reflections Trevor Wishart 8. Some notes on my electronic improvisation practice Tim Perkis 9. Combining the acoustic and the digital: music for instruments and computers or pre-recorded sound Simon Emmerson Section IV: Creative and Performance Modes 10. Dancing the music: interactive dance and music Wayne Siegel 11. Gesture and morphology in laptop music performance Garth Paine 12. Sensor based musical Instruments and interactive music Atau Tanaka 13. Spatialisation and computer music Peter Lennox 14. The voice in computer music and its relationship to place, identity and community Hazel Smith Noam Sagiv, Freya Bailes and Roger T. Dean 16. An introduction to data sonification David Worrall 17. Electronica Nick Collins 18. Generative algorithms for making music: emergence, evolution and ecosystems Jon McCormack, Alice Eldridge, Alan Dorin and Peter McIlwain Section V: Cognition and Computation of Computer Music 19. Computational modelling of music cognition and musical creativity Geraint A. Wiggins, Marcus T. Pearce and Daniel Mullensiefen 20. Soundspotting: a new kind of process? Michael Casey Section VI: Sounding Out 21. Interactivity and improvisation George E. Lewis 22. From outside the window: electronic sound performance Pauline Oliveros 23. Empirical studies of computer sound Freya Bailes and Roger T. Dean Section VII: Cultural and Educational Issues 24. Toward the gender ideal Mary Simoni 25. Sound-based music 4 all Leigh Landy 26. Framing learning perspectives in computer music education Joran Rudi and Palmyre Pierroux Appendix 27. A chronology of computer music and related events Paul Doornbusch Contributors