Sound to Sense - Sense to Sound: A state of the art in Sound and Music Computing

 

Pietro Polotti, Davide Rocchesso [Hrsg.]
ISBN 978-3-8325-1600-0
490 pages, year of publication: 2008
price: 69.00 Eur

Stichworte/keywords: Sound and Music Computing , Music Cognition , Audio Signal Processing , Music Control and Performance , Sonic Interaction Design

Since the 1950's, Sound and Music Computing (SMC) research has been producing a profound impact on the development of culture and technology in our post-industrial society. SMC research approaches the whole sound and music communication chain from a multidisciplinary point of view. By combining scientific, technological and artistic methodologies it aims at understanding, modelling, representing and producing sound and music using computational approaches. This book, by describing the state of the art in SMC research, gives hints of future developments, whose general purpose will be to bridge the semantic gap, the hiatus that currently separates sound from sense and sense from sound.

The book can be purchased here.

The book is licensed CreativeCommons BY-NC-ND. A copy of the book can be downloaded here.

Contents:

Sound, Sense and Music Mediation:
Marc Leman, Frederik Styns, and Nicola Bernardini

Learning Music
Emmanuel Bigand, Philippe Lalitte, and Barbara Tillmann

Content Processing of Music Audio Signals
Fabien Gouyon, Perfecto Herrera, Emilia Gomez, Pedro Cano, Jordi Bonada, Alex Loscos, Xavier Amatriain, and Xavier Serra

From Sound to Sense via Feature Extraction and Machine Learning
Gerhard Widmer, Simon Dixon, and Peter Knees

Sense in Expressive Music Performance
Werner Goebl, Simon Dixon, Giovanni De Poli, Anders Friberg, Roberto Bresin, and Gerhard Widmer

Controlling Sound with Senses
Antonio Camurri, Carlo Drioli, Barbara Mazzarino, Gualtiero Volpe

Real-Time Control of Music Performance
Anders Friberg and Roberto Bresin

Physics-Based Sound Synthesis
Cumhur Erkut, Vesa Valimaki, Matti Karjalainen, and Henri Penttinen

Interactive Sound
Federico Avanzini

Sound Design and Auditory Displays
Amalia de Götzen, Pietro Polotti, and Davide Rocchesso

Controlling Sound Production
Roberto Bresin, Kjetil Falkenberg Hanse, Matti Karjalainen, Teemu Mäki-Patola, Aki Kanerva, Antti Huovilainen, Sergi Jordà, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger, Ross Bencina, Amalia de Götzen, and Davide Rocchesso

 

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