Guide to Unconventional Computing for Music
- Editor: Miranda, Eduardo
Guide to Unconventional Computing for Music
- Editor: Miranda, Eduardo
Purchase product
About
This pioneering text/reference explores how innovative new modes of computation may provide exciting new directions for future developments in the music industry, guiding the reader through the latest research in this emerging, interdisciplinary field. This work includes coverage of electronic music compositions and performances that incorporate unconventional interfacing, hacking and circuit bending. Features: presents an introduction to unconventional computing in music; discusses initiatives involving biophysical electronic music, the work of self-styled silicon luthiers, and the intersection of music and quantum computing; introduces the memristor, a new electronic component with the potential to revolutionize how computers are built; reviews experiments and practical applications of biological memristors in music; describes IMUSIC, an unconventional tone-based programming language, which enables the programming of computers using musical phrases; includes review questions at the end of each chapter.
Contents
- Introduction to Unconventional Computing
- Susan Stepney
- On Unconventional Computing for Sound and Music
- Eduardo R. Miranda, Alexis Kirke, Edward Braund, and Aurelien Antoine
- On Biophysical Music
- Marco Donnarumma
- The Transgressive Practices of Silicon Luthiers
- Ezra Teboul
- Experiments in Sound and Music Quantum Computing
- Alexis Kirke and Eduardo R. Miranda
- Memristor in a Nutshell
- Martin A. Trefzer
- Physarum Inspired Audio: From Oscillatory Sonification to Memristor Music
- Ella Gale, Oliver Matthews, Jeff Jones, Richard Mayne, Georgios Sirakoulis, and Andrew Adamatzky
- An Approach to Building Musical Bioprocessors with Physarum polycephalum Memristors
- Edward Braund and Eduardo R. Miranda
- Towards a Musical Programming Language
- Alexis Kirke
