Series from jacket flap.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the many futures of computer music / Roger T. Dean -- A historical view of computer music technology / Douglas Keislar -- Early hardware and early ideas in computer music : their development and their current forms / Paul Doornbusch -- Sound synthesis using computers / Peter Manning -- Computational approaches to composition of notated instrumental music : Xenakis and the other pioneers / James Harley -- Envisaging improvisation in future computer music / Roger T. Dean -- Computer music : some reflections / Trevor Wishart -- Some notes on my electronic improvisation practice / Tim Perkis -- Combining the acoustic and the digital : music for instruments and computers or pre-recorded sound / Simon Emmerson -- Dancing the music : interactive dance and music / Wayne Siegel -- Gesture and morphology in laptop music performance / Garth Paine -- Sensor based musical instruments and interactive music / Atau Tanaka -- Spatialization and computer music / Peter Lennox -- The voice in computer music and its relationship to place, identity, and community / Hazel Smith -- Algorithmic synaesthesia / Noam Sagiv, Roger T. Dean, and Freya Bailes -- An introduction to data sonification / David Worrall -- Electronica / Nick Collins -- Generative algorithms for making music : emergence, evolution, and ecosystems / Jon McCormack ... [et al.] -- Computational modeling of music cognition and musical creativity / Geraint A. Wiggins, Marcus T. Pearce and Daniel M�ullensiefen -- Soundspotting : a new kind of process? / Michael Casey -- Interactivity and improvisation / George E. Lewis -- From outside the window : electronic sound performance / Pauline Oliveros -- Empirical studies of computer sound / Freya Bailes and Roger T. Dean -- Toward the gender ideal / Mary Simoni -- Sound-based music 4 all / Leigh Landy -- Framing learning perspectives in computer music education / J�ran Rudi and Palmyre Pierroux.