Reading and Listening Suggestions
Recommended Books
Roger Dean, Hyperimprovisation: Computer-Interactive Sound Improvisation
CMDAS 19 ISBN 0-89579-508-6 (2003) xxvi + 206 pp. and CD-ROM (cross platform) $49.95Winkler, Todd: Composing Interactive Music: Techniques and Ideas Using Max
Robert Rowe: Machine Musicianship
Perry Cook: Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications (With CD-ROM)
Matt Gilliland and Ken Gracey: Microcontroller Application Cookbooks 1 and 2.
M. Wanderley and M. Battier (eds). 2000. Trends in Gestural Control of Music. IRCAM - Centre Pompidou.
Available from the EMF - CDemusicLaBelle, Brandon and Steve Roden: The Sight of Sound : Available from the EMF - CDemusic
Sounds (and more)
Race in Digital Space: Presented by University of Southern California and Massachusetts Institute of Technology In conjunction with University of California-Santa Barbara and New York University: program notes and mp3s of gearge lewis and others
European free improvisation page:
Creative misuse and abuse of musical tools: Ryan Hildebrand, free improvisation and extended techniques, electronica, musique concrete and tape music, turntablism
Papers
NIME 2003 Proceedings
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/musictech/nime/onlineproceedings/home.html
NIME 2002 Proceedings
http://www.mle.ie/nime/Proceedings/index.htm
NIME 2001 Proceedings
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/poup/research/chi2000wshp/program.html
Working Group in Interactive Systems and Instrument Design in Music
http://www.notam02.no/icma/interactivesystems/wg.html
Winkler: Making Motion Musical: Gestural Mapping Strategies for Interactive Computer Music.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Music/faculty/winkler/papers/Making_Motion_Musical_1995.pdfParadiso: Electronic Music - New Ways to Play
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/select/1297/muse.html
Wanderley: Gestural Control of Music
http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/wanderle/Gestes/Externe/kassel.pdf
Mulder: Towards a Choice of Gestural Constraints for Instrumental Performers
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~amulder/personal/vmi/pvi.pdf
Ryan: Some Remarks on Musical Instrument Design at STEIM
http://foobar.starlab.net/~ozan/steim_review_article.html
Wessel and Wright: Problems and Prospects for Intimate Musical Control of Computers
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/poup/research/chi2000wshp/papers/wessel.pdf
Vertegaal et al.: Towards a Musician's Cockpit: Transducers, Feedback and Musical Function
http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~roel/publications/ICMC96/paper.html
Orio et al.: New Interfaces for Musical Performance
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/poup/research/chi2000wshp/papers/orio.pdfElectronic Music Interfaces - joe Paradiso, MIT Media Lab
http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/ieee.htmlTexts on improvised and experimental music from Resonance magazine
Early Instruments
120 years of electronic instruments:
futurist machines,
The "Intonorumori" (1913), "Rumorarmonio" (1922)
& the "Enharmonic Piano" (1931)
Russalo; the art of noises: