Digital Music Books

New and Published Books

1. The Digital Musician

   2nd Edition

   By Andrew Hugill

   The Digital Musician is a textbook for creative music technology and electronic music courses. It provides an overview of sound properties, acoustics, digital music, and sound design as a basis for understanding the compositional possibilities that new music technologies allow. Creative projects...

   Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Making Music with Sounds

   By Leigh Landy

   Making Music with Sounds offers a creative introduction to the art of making sound-based music. It introduces the elements of making compositions with sounds and facilitates creativity in school age children, with the activities primarily for 11-14 year old students. It can also be used by people...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Electronic and Experimental Music

   Technology, Music, and Culture, 4th Edition

   By Thom Holmes

   Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive history of electronic music, covering key composers, genres, and techniques used in both analog and digital synthesis. This textbook has been greatly expanded and revised with the needs of...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Bodily Expression in Electronic Music

   Perspectives on Reclaiming Performativity

   Edited by Deniz Peters, Gerhard Eckel, Andreas Dorschel

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   In this book, scholars and artists explore the relation between electronic music and bodily expression from perspectives including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, dance and interactive performance arts, sociology, computer music and sonic arts, and music theory, transgressing...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
5. Music Technology and the Project Studio

   Synthesis and Sampling

   By Dan Hosken

   Music Technology and the Project Studio: Synthesis and Sampling provides clear explanations of synthesis and sampling techniques and how to use them effectively and creatively. Starting with analog-style synthesis as a basic model, this textbook explores in detail how messages from a MIDI...

   Published September 5th 2011 by Routledge
6. An Introduction to Music Technology

   By Dan Hosken

   An Introduction to Music Technology provides a clear and concise overview of the essential elements of music technology for today’s musician. It is designed to provide music students with the background necessary to apply technology in their creating, teaching, and performing. This book focuses on...

   Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge
7. Notes from the Metalevel

   An Introduction to Computer Composition

   By Heinrich Taube

   Series: Studies on New Music Research

   First published in 2005...

   Published November 23rd 2004 by Routledge
8. The Digital Songstream

   Mastering the World of Digital Music

   By Brad Hill

   This is the ultimate guide to the new digital world of music. Cutting through myths, it offers a step-by-step introduction to what's possible for performers, composers, and listeners-addressing legal and ethical issues as well as the nuts and bolts of what equipment to buy and what services are...

   Published March 20th 2003 by Routledge
9. Electronic and Experimental Music

   Foundations of New Music and New Listening, 2nd Edition

   By Thom Holmes, Thom Holmes

   Electronic and Experimental Music is a second edition of a well-known text on the history of electronic music. Holmes' original book, first published in 1985, was a beginner's introduction both to the theories of sound and sound production and to the history of some of the earliest experiments in...

   Published July 4th 2002 by Routledge
10. Readings in Music and Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Eduardo Reck Miranda

    Series: Contemporary Music Studies

    Published August 7th 2000 by Routledge