USAR02: Music and Technology

RESOURCES

Readings

• Chadabe, Joel: Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Elctronic Music.
• Williams, D. and P. Webster: Experiencing Music Technology.
• Dodge, C. and T. Jerse: Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition and Performance
• Meyer, Leonard: Music, The Arts, and Ideas.
• Xenakis, Iannis: Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition.
• Roads, Curtis: The Computer Music Tutorial
• Choe, Wolhee: Toward an Aesthetic Criticism of Technology
• Dasgupta, Subrata: Technology and Creativity
• Schwartz, E. and B. Childs: Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music
• Alperson, Philip: Musical Worlds
• Lippman, Edward: A History of Western Musical Aesthetics
• Dahlhaus, Carl: Aesthetics of Music
• Jourdan, Robert: Music, The Brain, and Ecstasy
• Cope, David: Techniques of the Contemporary Composer
• Talbot-Smith, Michael: Broadcast Sound Technology
• Martin, Peter: Sounds and Society
• Boretz B. and E. T. Cone: Perspectives On Contemporary Music Theory
• Kerman, Joseph: Contemplating Music
• Nolan, Ron and S. Nolan: Computer Music: An Interactive Documentary. CD-ROM.

Miscellaneous Listenings

• Antheil, George: Ballet mecanique (CCD)
• Cage, John: “Sonata No. 5” Sonatas and Interludes (CCD267)
• Lucier, Alvin: I am Sitting in a Room (CCD)
• Schaffer, Pierre: Quatre etudes de bruits No.1 (CCD266)
• Cage, John: Williams Mix (CCD267)
• Luening, Otto: Low Speed (CCD276)
• Ligeti, Gyorgy: Artikulation (CCD245)
• Varese, Edgar: Poeme Electronique (CCD198)
• Stockhausen, Karlheinz: Gesang Der Junlinge (CCD265)
• Babbitt, Milton: Philomel (CCD181)
• Reich, Steve: Come Out (CCD192)
• Reich, Steve: Pendulum Music (CCD264)
• Carlos, Wendy: Two-Part Invention in F Major (CCD256)
• Davidovsky, Mario: Synchronisms No. 6 (CCD250)
• Tenney, James: Dialogue (CCD271 )
• Oliveros, Pauline: Bye Bye Butterfly (CCD273)
• Subotnik, Morton: Silver Apples of the Moon (CCD272)
• Risset, Jean-Claude: Computer Suite from Little Boy (CCD260)
• Xenakis, Iannis: Hibiki-Hana-Ma (CCD252)
• Chowning, John: Sabelithe (CCD259)
• Dodge, Charles: Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental (CCD277)
• Lansky, Paul: Six Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion (CCD262)
• Jaffe, David: Silicon Valley Breakdown (CCD)
• Garton, Brad: Approximate Rhythms (CCD246)
• Ho, CheeKong: Cloud Dancing (CCD )
• Ho, CheeKong: Dreaming of Windows (CCD )

Miscellaneous Others

• http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/
• http://music.dartmouth.edu/~wowem/electronmedia/music/eamhistory.html
• http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/
• http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/history/
• http://www.plato.nl/e-primer/contents.htm
• http://www.emusician.com/dmpg/