Re: Sound, Camera, Lights, Action!
Dave Nadeau ([email protected])
Mon, 17 Apr 1995 16:12:43 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 17 Apr 1995, Anthony Parisi wrote:
> You raise some good points. This is why I would rather go for a simple
> AmbientSound idea. This gives us basic functionality without a heavy spec
> or development commitment. Why ram sound through in a few weeks when we
> gave 3D geometry the better part of a year?
Then I recommend we *not* ram any part of sound through right now. Sound
synthesis and processing is at least as difficult and rich a field as is
graphics, and deserves the same serious careful consideration we have
lavished on geometry descriptions. Remember that once you add something
to a spec, you can almost never remove it. If we make a mistake now, we
have to live with it for many years to come. :-(
Some good references...
Perception:
Audition, Pierre Buser, Michael Imbert, MIT Press, 1992.
Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound,
Albert S. Bregman, MIT Press, 1990.
Music Cognition, W. Jay Dowling, Dane L. Harwood, Academic Press, 1986.
Perception, Robert Sekuler, Randolph Blake, McGraw-Hill, 1990.
The Psychology of Music, ed. Diana Deutsch, Academic Press, 1982.
The Science of Sound, Thomas D. Rossing, Addison-Wesley, 1990.
Synthesis:
3-D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia, Durrand R. Begault,
Academic Press, 1994.
Composers and the Computer, ed. Curtis Roads, William Kaufmann Inc,
1985.
Current Directions in Computer Music Research, ed. Max V. Matthews,
John R. Pierce, MIT Press, 1989.
Digital Audio Signal Processing: An Anthology, ed. John Strawn,
William Kaufmann Inc, 1985.
Digital Audio Engineering: An Anthology, ed. John Strawn, William
Kaufmann Inc., 1985.
Elements of Computer Music, F. Richard Moore, Prentice Hall, 1990.
FM Theory & Applications, John Chowning, David Bristow, Yamaha Music,
1986.
Foundations of Computer Music, ed. Curtis Roads, John Strawn, MIT
Press, 1985.
Machine Models of Music, ed. Stephan M. Schwanaur, David A. Levitt, MIT
Press, 1993.
Representations of Musical Signals, ed. Giovanni De Poli, Aldo
Piccialli, Curtis Roads, MIT Press, 1991.
The Science of Musical Sounds, Johan Sundberg, Academic Press, 1991.
Sonification:
Auditory Display: Sonification, Audification, and Auditory
Interfaces, ed. Gregory Kramer, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
Major conferences include AES, ICAD, and ICMC.
Major software sound synthesis packages include CSound and CMusic.
Perhaps the best single-source journal is The Computer Music Journal,
published by MIT Press.
Dave Nadeau
San Diego Supercomputer Center