The digital musician

The Digital Musician- Front Cover
The Digital Musician
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
	FIGURES
	TABLES
Preface
	HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
	TO THE EDUCATORS
	TO THE STUDENTS
	ABOUT THE PROJECTS
	ABOUT THE CASE STUDIES
	WEB RESOURCES
Notes to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Digital Musician
	What Are You?
	Where Have You Come From?
	Where Are You Going?
	Introduction to the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
Part I: Aural Awareness
Chapter 1: Hearing and Listening
	Hearing
	Listening
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
	Suggested Listening
Chapter 2: Listening to Music
	How Musicians Listen
	The Musician’s Ear
	Aural Phenomena
	Active Listening
	Critical Listening
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
	Suggested Listening
Chapter 3: Exploring Sound
	Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
	From Noise to Silence
	Sound Structures
	Pitch and Tuning
	Duration
	Timbre vs. Spectrum
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
	Suggested Listening
Part II: Musical Creativity
Chapter 4: Working with Digital Audio
	About Digital Audio
	Digital vs. Post-Digital
	Creative Digital Audio
	Digital Synthesis
	Recording and Mixing
	Musical Metadata
	Music Information Retrieval
	Sonification
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
	Suggested Listening
Chapter 5: Shaping Sounds
	Selecting Sounds
	Representing Sounds
	Manipulating Sounds
	Sculpting Sounds
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
	Suggested Listening
Chapter 6: Organizing Sound
	Sound-Art/Sonic Art
	Sound in Space
	Networked Space
	Spatialization
	Multichannel Sound Diffusion
	Sound through Time
	Spectromorphology
	Style
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
	Suggested Listening
Chapter 7: Composing Music
	The Composer
	Why Compose?
	The Compositional Process
	Aural Imagination
	Intention and Result
	Freedom and Constraint
	Originality
	Form and Structure
	Moods and Modalities
	Collaborative Composition
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
Part III: Performance Ability
Chapter 8: Instruments
	Musicians and Their Instruments
	Organology
	Extended Acoustic Instruments
	Software Instruments
	About MIDI
	Controllers
	Hardware Hacking
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
	Suggested Listening
Chapter 9: Performing
	The Performer
	Performance Situations
	Networked Performance
	Installation Work
	Performance Scores
	Being Live
	Improvisation
	Live Coding
	Artificial Intelligence
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
	Suggested Listening
Chapter 10: Musicianship
	Digital Musicianship
	Technical Mastery
	Critical Judgment
	Aural Skills
	Musical Literacy
	Ensemble Abilities
	Creativity
	Virtuosity
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
	Suggested Listening
Chapter 11: Media
	Multimedia
	Film and Video
	Fixed Media
	Interactive Music
	Mobile Platforms
	Small Devices
	Virtual Reality
	Augmented Reality
	Games
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
	Suggested Listening
Part IV: Cultural Knowledge
Chapter 12: Cultural Context
	Digital Culture
	The Thinking Musician
	Emergence
	Cultural Diversity
	Global Culture
	Cultural Translations
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
	Suggested Listening
Chapter 13: Critical Engagement
	Critical Theory
	Musicology
	Aesthetics
	Critical Judgment
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
Chapter 14: Understanding Digital Music
	Digital Music
	Genre
	Notation
	Analysis
	Evocative Transcription
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
	Suggested Listening
Part V: Real-World Skills
Chapter 15: The Digital World
	Being a Musician in the Digital World
	The Changing Workplace
	Careers
	Business
	Networking and Self-Promotion
	Production and Publishing
	Education and Training
	Comments from the Case Studies
	Food for Thought
	Projects
	Further Reading
Index