The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution

by Andrew J. Nelson

Book Overview

How a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026202876X
• ISBN13: 9780262028769
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher