[chuck-users] Recommended books?

[garton at columbia.edu]

One of the primary author's of ChUcK, Perry Cook hisself, has
several terrific books out.  You might want to check:

"Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications"
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781568811680&itm=16

for a good intro into the theory behind sound synthesis and DSP.  It
includes a CD-ROM with the STK on it, the basis for a lot of CHuck
dsp stuff.


My old 'recommend this' standby is by Charles Dodge and Thomas
Jerse:

"Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance"
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780028646824&itm=1

although it is indeed old now.  I think they updated it not too long
ago, but it does talk a lot about ugen theory, etc.


The Big Giant Book That is Really Big and Giant That Covers
Everything and it is Really Big and Giant is a collection put out
by
Curtis Roads (former and long-time editor of the Computer Music
Journal):

"Computer Music Tutorial"
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780262680820&itm=1


I also know that Eduardo Reck Miranda has a new synth-techniques
book out, don't know anything about it though.


There was a terrific 'on-line' book/tutorial that Larry Polansky,
Douglas Repetto and Mary Lee Roberts developed, but I'm not sure
what happened with it.  You might try contacting douglas (douglas -
at - music ddot columbia dot edu) to see what happened to it.  It
had some wonderful interactive tutorials.


You might also want to scan the music-dsp reviews to see if any of
those appeal to you:

http://www.music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp/dspbooks.html


Finally, for a really fun read that introduces a lot of
music-cognition work (if you are interested, this is not a 'techie'
book at all), Dan Levitin has a great one:

"This Is Your Brain on Music"
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780452288522&itm=2


Hope this helps...

brad
http://music.columbia.edu/~brad



Quoting Carl-Gustaf Harroch <charroch at gmail.com>:

> Chuckist,
>
> Are there any books that you recommend for general computerized
> music?
> If I want, for instance, to get involved in the development of
> chuck,
> which book would you recommend? Especially about general notions
> such
> as oscilators. music theory, tempo, sampling etc...
>
> I am quite new to all of this but would really love to get into
> the
> core of music programming. I have been through the chuck manuals
> but
> it is stil quite high level and would like to understand the
> basis of
> the language itself.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> ./Carl
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