December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
9h 55m
English
book
Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists
by Perry Cook, Ajay Kapur, Spencer Salazar, Ge Wang
Overview
Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists: Creating Music with ChucK offers a complete introduction to programming in the open source music language ChucK. In it, you'll learn the basics of digital sound creation and manipulation while you discover the ChucK language. As you move example-by-example through this easy-to-follow book, you'll create meaningful and rewarding digital compositions and "instruments" that make sound and music in direct response to program logic, scores, gestures, and other systems connected via MIDI or the network.
About the Technology
About the Book
A digital musician must manipulate sound precisely. ChucK is an audio-centric programming language that provides precise control over time, audio computation, and user interface elements like track pads and joysticks. Because it uses the vocabulary of sound, ChucK is easy to learn even for artists with little or no exposure to computer programming.
Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists offers a complete introduction to music programming. In it, you'll learn the basics of digital sound manipulation while you learn to program using ChucK. Example-by-example, you'll create meaningful digital compositions and "instruments" that respond to program logic, scores, gestures, and other systems connected via MIDI or the network. You'll also experience how ChucK enables the on-the-fly musical improvisation practiced by communities of "live music coders" around the world.
What's Inside
- Learn ChucK and digital music creation side-by-side
- Invent new sounds, instruments, and modes of performance
- Written by the creators of the ChucK language
About the Reader
About the Authors
Perry Cook, Ajay Kapur, Spencer Salazar, and Ge Wang are pioneers in the area of teaching and programming digital music. Ge is the creator and chief architect of the ChucK language.
Quotes
A plethora of well-explained examples to help readers learn in a engaged, hands-on way.
- From the Foreword by Casey Reas, UCLA
This book and ChucK bring together music and programming for everyone.
- Jim Matlock, IBM
A fantastic way to learn programming and music technology hand-in-hand!
- David Sumberg, Apple Inc.
Teaches coders how to write music and musicians how to write code.
- Patrick Regan, University of Illinois at Springfield
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