The SuperCollider Book (Hardcover)

The essential reference to SuperCollider, a powerful, flexible, open-source, cross-platform audio programming language. SuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio programming languages, with potential applications that include real-time interaction, installations, electroacoustic pieces, generative music, and audiovisuals. The SuperCollider Book is the essential reference to this powerful and flexible language, offering students and professionals a collection of tutorials, essays, and projects. With contributions from top academics, artists, and technologists that cover topics at levels from the introductory to the specialized, it will be a valuable sourcebook both for beginners and for advanced users. SuperCollider, first developed by James McCartney, is an accessible blend of Smalltalk, C, and further ideas from a number of programming languages. Free, open-source, cross-platform, and with a diverse and supportive developer community, it is often the first programming language sound artists and computer musicians learn. The SuperCollider Book is the long-awaited guide to the design, syntax, and use of the SuperCollider language. The first chapters offer an introduction to the basics, including a friendly tutorial for absolute beginners, providing the reader with skills that can serve as a foundation for further learning. Later chapters cover more advanced topics and particular topics in computer music, including programming, sonification, spatialization, microsound, GUIs, machine listening, alternative tunings, and non-real-time synthesis; practical applications and philosophical insights from the composer's and artist's perspectives; and "under the hood," developer's-eye views of SuperCollider's inner workings. A Web site accompanying the book offers code, links to the application itself and its source code, and a variety of third-party extras, extensions, libraries, and examples.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The MIT Press
Release date:	April 2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	Scott Wilson (Senior Lecturer in Music) • David Cottle (Senior Lecturer) • Nick Collins (Reader in Composition)
Foreword by:	James McCartney
Dimensions:	229 x 203 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	776
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-23269-2
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Programming languages > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Audio processing > Music & sound effects Promotions
LSN:	0-262-23269-3
Barcode:	9780262232692

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