Table of Contents

Part 1 Fundamental concepts: Digital audio concepts with John Strawn; Music systems programming, Curtis Abbott. Part 2 Sound synthesis: Introduction to digital sound synthesis with John Strawn; sampling and additive synthesis; multiple wavetable, wave terrain, granular, and subtractive synthesis; modulation synthesis; physical modeling and formant synthesis; waveform segment, graphic, and stochastic synthesis. Part 3 Mixing and signal processing: sound mixing; basic concepts of signal processing; sound spatialization and reverberation. Part 4 Sound analysis: pitch and rhythm recognition; spectrum analysis. Part 5 The musician's interface: musical input devices; performance software; music editors; music languages; algorithmic composition systems; representations and strategies for algorithmic composition. Part 6 Internal and interconnections: internal of digital signal processors; MIDI; system interconnections. Part 7 Psychoaccoustics: Psychoaccoustics in computer music, John W. Gordon. Appendix: Fourier analysis, Philip Greenspun.