Books
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The Audio Programming Book Richard Boulanger & Victor Lazzarini This comprehensive handbook of mathematical and programming techniques for audio signal processing will be an essential reference for all computer musicians, computer scientists, engineers, and anyone interested in audio. Designed to…
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Designing Sound Andy Farnell Designing Sound teaches students and professional sound designers to understand and create sound effects starting from nothing. Its thesis is that any sound can be generated from first principles, guided by analysis and synthesis. The text…
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Why You Hear What You Hear: An Experiential Approach to Sound, Music, and Psychoacoustics Eric J. Heller Why You Hear What You Hear is the first book on the physics of sound for the nonspecialist to empower readers with a…
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On the Sensations of Tone (Dover Books on Music) Hermann Helmholtz On the Sensations of Tone is one of the world’s greatest scientific classics. It bridges the gap between the natural sciences and music theory and, nearly a century after…
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Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise David Rothenberg In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the Northeastern United States will yet again emerge from their seventeen-year cycle―the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experience…
