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Nine lively essays and interviews cover the aesthetic issues and compositional techniques of computer music as seen by its practitioners. Subjects covered include the use of sound synthesis techniques, interactive composition in performance, algorithmic composition, aesthetic and philosophical issues, musical setting of text, and problems remaining in present-day computer music.

Contents

• Interview with Herbert Brün
• John Chowning on Composition
• Interview with James Dashow
• In Celebration: The Composition and Its Realization in Synthetic Speech
• Improvisation with George Lewis
• Thoughts on Computer Music Composition
• Digital Techniques and Sound Structure in Music
• The Realization of nscor
• Music Composition Treks