The sound of innovation
Subtitle: Stanford and the computer music revolution
By: Andrew J. Nelson
Series: Inside technology; Inside technology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780262028769
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Music and technology; Sound; Stanford University. Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics; Recording and reproducing; Stanford University; History and criticism; Music; Computer programs; Computer music; Technological innovations; History
Description: "In the 1960s, a team of Stanford musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists used computing in an entirely novel way: to produce and manipulate sound and create the sonic basis of new musical compositions. This group of interdisciplinary researchers at the nascent Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA, pronounced "karma") helped to develop computer music as an academic field, invent the technologies that underlie it, and usher in the age of digital music. In The Sound of Innovation, Andrew Nelson chronicles the history of CCRMA, tracing its origins in Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory through its present-day influence on Silicon Valley and digital music groups worldwide." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: "Appendix: Interviews conducted by author": pages 171-172.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Setting the stage; title: The first movement; title: Tension and release; title: Duet for Stanford and Yamaha; title: From exposition to development; title: Plucking the Golden Gate Bridge; title: Recapitulation and variations; title: Coda.