Musical Signal Processing

Curtis Roads, Stephen Pope, Aldo Piccialli, and Giovanni De Poli Edts.

Compiled by an international array of musical and technical specialists, Musical Signal Processing opens the door to the most important topics in musical signal processing today. Beginning with basic concepts, and leading to advanced applications, it covers such essential areas as sound synthesis (including detailed studies of physical modelling and granular synthesis), control signal synthesis, sound transformation (including convolution), analysis/resynthesis (phase vocoder, wavelets, analysis by chaotic functions), object-oriented and artificial intelligence representations, musical interfaces, and the integration of signal processing techniques in concert performance.

Prepared over a period of four years, Musical Signal Processing is designed to be adopted in courses of musical sound synthesis and sound processing, in research centres, conservatories, and university departments of music, acoustics, computer science, and engineering. The audience includes electronic and computer musicians, engineers, acousticians, and instrument designers. The chapters in Musical Signal Processing have been written according to a two-part structure: the first half tutorial, the second half advanced. Thus any chapter should be accessible to students of the field.

Table of Contents:

Part I Foundations of musical signal processing

Overview C. Roads

1) Musical signal synthesis G. Borin, G. De Poli, and A. Sarti 2) Introducing the phase vocoder M.-H. Serra 3) Musical signal modelling with sinusoids plus noise X. Serra

Part II Innovations in musical signal processing

Overview G. De Poli

4) Wavelet representations of musical signals G.-P. Evangelista 5) Granular synthesis of musical sounds S. Cavaliere, and A. Piccialli 6) Music signal analysis with chaos A. Bernardi, G.-P. Bugna, and G. De Poli 7) Acoustic modelling using digital waveguides J.O. Smith III

Part III Musical signal macrostructures

Overview S.T. Pope

8) Programming language design for musical signal processing R.Dannenberg, P. Desain, and H. Honing 9) Musical object representation S.T. Pope 10) Artificial-intelligence-based music signal applications A. Camurri, and M. Leman - a hybrid approach Part IV Composition and musical signal processing

Overview C. Roads

11) Notations and interfaces for musical signal processing G. Sica 12) Sound transformation by convolution C. Roads 13) Musical interpretation and signal processing A. Vidolin

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