With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point. Joining dozens of emerging and established scholars alongside leading practitioners in the field, chapters in this Handbook both describe the state of algorithmic composition and also set the agenda for critical research on and analysis of algorithmic music. Organized into four sections, chapters explore the music's history, utility, community, politics, and potential for mass consumption. Contributors address such issues as the role of algorithms as co-performers, live coding practices, and discussions of the algorithmic culture as it currently exists and what it can potentially contribute society, education, and ecommerce. Chapters engage particularly with post-human perspectives - what new musics are now being found through algorithmic means which humans could not otherwise have made - and, in reciprocation, how algorithmic music is being assimilated back into human culture and what meanings it subsequently takes. Blending technical, artistic, cultural, and scientific viewpoints, this Handbook positions algorithmic music making as an essentially human activity.

The rise in sea level is a visible and remorseless indicator of global warming, the consequences of which can be experienced worldwide - in contrast to other effects of climate change that are not yet noticeable at a larger scale. The book illustrates, in an impressive way, the ecological, commercial, and social impact associated with the rise in sea levels, taking the examples of the American East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico: the author has documented this region from his Cessna between 2005 and 2018 using large-format aerial photography. The pictures illustrate the different conditions of the areas documented at different times of the year, before and after major weather events, and thereby provide evidence of how dramatically the geography and landscape are altered due to climate change.

With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point. Joining dozens of emerging and established scholars alongside leading practitioners in the field, chapters in this Handbook both describe the state of algorithmic composition and also set the agenda for critical research on and analysis of algorithmic music. Organized into four sections, chapters explore the music's history, utility, community, politics, and potential for mass consumption. Contributors address such issues as the role of algorithms as co-performers, live coding practices, and discussions of the algorithmic culture as it currently exists and what it can potentially contribute society, education, and ecommerce. Chapters engage particularly with post-human perspectives - what new musics are now being found through algorithmic means which humans could not otherwise have made - and, in reciprocation, how algorithmic music is being assimilated back into human culture and what meanings it subsequently takes. Blending technical, artistic, cultural, and scientific viewpoints, this Handbook positions algorithmic music making as an essentially human activity.

Im Gegensatz zu anderen Auswirkungen des Klimawandels, die nicht in grossem Massstab spurbar sind, ist der Anstieg des Meeresspiegels ein sichtbarer und unerbittlicher Indikator fur die globale Erwarmung, deren Folgen weltweit zu spuren sind. Es ist nicht zu leugnen, dass der Meeresspiegelanstieg - verstarkt durch Sturme und Sturmfluten - Erosion, UEberschwemmungen und katastrophale Schaden an den Kusten sowie im Binnenland verursacht. Das Buch zeigt auf eindrucksvolle Weise anhand einer exemplarischen Region die mit dem Meeresspiegelanstieg verbundenen oekologischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Stoerungen auf: Der Autor hat die US-amerikanische Ostkuste (Maine bis Florida) und den Golf von Mexiko (Florida bis Texas) zwischen 2005 und 2018 mittels grossformatiger Luftaufnahmen aus seiner Cessna dokumentiert. Die Bilder illustrieren die verschiedenen Zustande der uberflogenen Gebiete in verschiedenen Jahreszeiten, vor und nach grossen Wetterereignissen und bezeugen somit, wie sich Geographie und Landschaft durch den Klimawandel dramatisch verandern. Das Buch diskutiert auch Resilienzstrategien und zeigt dabei, wie naturliche Systeme der Ableitung von Sturmfluten dienen koennen oder wie die Entwicklung von Parks und Naturschutzgebieten dazu fuhrt, dass Hochwasser ohne nachhaltige Schaden aufgenommen wird - alles Beispiele fur uns in einer Zeit, in der das Bewusstsein fur den steigenden Meeresspiegel in Europa noch lange nicht ausreichend ausgepragt ist. Das Buch wird durch einen brillanten Text von Bill McKibben, einer der fuhrenden Persoenlichkeiten des Klimaaktivismus, eingeleitet.