Robert Rowe: Machine Musicianship (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · algorithm, composition, music, performance, sound recording
Musicians begin formal training by acquiring a body of musical concepts commonly known as musicianship. These concepts underlie the musical skills of listening, performance, and composition. Like humans, computer music programs can benefit from a systematic foundation of musical knowledge. This book explores the technology of implementing musical processes such as segmentation, pattern processing, and interactive improvisation in computer programs. It shows how the resulting applications can be used to accomplish tasks ranging from the solution of simple musical problems to the live performance of interactive compositions and the design of musically responsive installations and Web sites.
Machine Musicianship is both a programming tutorial and an exploration of the foundational concepts of musical analysis, performance, and composition. The theoretical foundations are derived from the fields of music theory, computer music, music cognition, and artificial intelligence. The book will be of interest to practitioners of those fields, as well as to performers and composers.
The concepts are programmed using C++ and Max.
Publisher MIT Press, 2001
ISBN 0262681498, 9780262681490
411 pages
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Comment (0)Georgina Born, David Hesmondhalgh (eds.): Western Music and Its Others. Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · ethnomusicology, music, music history, popular culture, sociology of music
This innovative collection of articles offers a major comprehensive overview of new developments in cultural theory as applied to Western music. Addressing a broad range of primarily twentieth-century music, the authors examine two related phenomena: musical borrowings or appropriations, and how music has been used to construct, evoke, or represent difference of a musical or a sociocultural kind.
The essays scrutinize a diverse body of music and discuss a range of significant examples, among them musical modernism’s idealizing or ambivalent relations with popular, ethnic, and non-Western music; exoticism and orientalism in the experimental music tradition; the representation of others in Hollywood film music; music’s role in the formation and contestation of collective identities, with reference to Jewish and Turkish popular music; and issues of representation and difference in jazz, world music, hip hop, and electronic dance music.
Written by leading scholars from disciplines including historical musicology, sociology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, popular music studies, and film studies, the essays provide unprecedented insights into how cultural identities and differences are constructed in music.
Publisher University of California Press, 2000
ISBN 0520220846, 9780520220843
360 pages
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Comment (0)Critical Education in the New Information Age (1999)
Filed under book | Tags: · capitalism, education, information society, information technology, neoliberalism, pedagogy, postmodernism
Essays by some of the world’s leading educators provide a revolutionary portrait of new ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change.
The authors take into account such diverse terrain as feminism, ecology, media, and individual liberty in their pursuit of new ideas that can inform the fundamental practice of education and promote a more humane civil society. The book consolidates recent thinking just as it reflects on emerging new lines of critical theory.
Editors Manuel Castells, Ramón Flecha, Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux, Donaldo Macedo, and Paul Willis
Introduction by Peter McLaren
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield, 1999
ISBN 0847690105, 9780847690107
Length 176 pages
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