Microsound
by Curtis Roads · first published 2001
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"Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building blocks of music - notes and their intervals - into a more fluid and supple medium. The sensations of point, pulse (series of points), line (tone), and surface (texture) emerge as particle density increases. Sounds coalesce, evaporate, and mutate into other sounds." "Composers have used theories of microsound in computer music since the 1950s. Dis
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…https://quod.lib.umich.edu/i/icmc/ Andy Farnell, "Designing Sound" A standard introductory DSP textbook such as Ifeachor and Jervis, Orfanidis, Oppenheim and Schafer. "The Computer Music Tutorial" and "Microsound" by Curtis Roads Audio Anecdotes book series "Music, Cognition and Computerised Sound", edited by Perry Cook what am I missing?
on “The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2006)” ↗Yeah, the classics are evergreen. Beyond Roads' Computer Music Tutorial, his Microsound is also a classic of the genre and IMO one of the best treatments I've seen of time-based artforms, situating compositional practice in between the Planck time as the lower bound and the age of the universe…
on “Electronic Music: Allen Strange's Classic Book Reissued” ↗> "The Computer Music Tutorial" and "Microsound" by Curtis Roads It's worth noting that the second edition has been just released last year - 27 years after the first edition! It's a massive book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044912/the-computer-music-tu...
on “The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2006)” ↗