Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword by David Elliott
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Companion Website
1. Introduction to Programming
2. Generating Music
3. Math and Music
4. Scales and Chords
5. Interactive Ear Training
6. Data Structures
7. Control Interfaces
8. Control Interfaces Continued
9. Tools for Music Theory Concepts
10. Working with Time
11. Building Stand-alone Applications
12. Introduction to Max for Live
13. Working with Audio
14. Audio Playback and Pitch Tracking BL
15..Audio Buffers BL
16. Audio Effects and Processing
17. Working with Live Video
18. Working with Video Files
19. Research Instruments
20. Informal Music Learning Instruments
21. Interactive Composition

About the Author

V.J. Manzo is Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Cognition at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He is a composer and guitarist with research interests in theory and composition, artificial intelligence, interactive music systems, and music learning. V.J. is the author of the books MAX/MSP/Jitter for Music, Foundations of Music Technology, and co-author of the books Interactive Composition and Environmental Sound Artists: in their
own words, all published by Oxford University Press. For more information visit vjmanzo.com.

Reviews

Praise for the First Edition

"A groundbreaking, step-by-step approach to empowering the creativity of music educators and music students through interactive computer software design." --from the Foreword by David Elliott, Professor of Music and Music Education, New York University
"Max has become a major player in the world of music making and VJ Manzo's book is perfect for those who want to become fluent with the language. And, for the growing legions of music makers who are using clusters of applications for diverse projects, Manzo's clear categorization of Max functionality may well make this book an ongoing standard reference for building specific Max/MSP patches within each cluster." --Morton Subotnick, Composer and Educator
"This book is a lucid and systematic introduction for beginners or intermediate users to all three components of the popular multimedia software Max/MSP/Jitter, covering MIDI, basic programming concepts, real-time audio/video manipulation, camera tracking, and alternate controllers. VJ Manzo does an excellent job of clearly explaining how to use the software. Music educators, students, music technologists, sound designers, game developers, composers, and
multimedia artists interested in learning Max in order to develop their own software applications will find this to be a highly useful text." --Cort Lippe, Director, The Lejaren Hiller Computer Music
Studios, University of Buffalo
"There are very few comprehensive resources out there for educators in music technology to get their students engaged in the creative act of writing software, as opposed to simply relying on commercial applications. This book, start to finish, provides a thorough curriculum for using Max in a music education setting, nicely complementing the company's own documentation by showing how to build more complex projects that integrate interactivity and sound.
Manzo's book is a great read, not only for educators and students but for electronic musicians looking to expand their arsenal of expressive tools." --R. Luke DuBois, Brooklyn Experimental Media Center,
Polytechnic Institute of NYU