This book is an introduction for composers and performers on key computer music techniques. The nine chapters progressively approach the different notions. An appendix on synthesis algorithms and a glossary complete the book.

Table of contents:

• Fundamentals of computer music
• The acoustics and psychoacoustics of music
• Synthesis fundamentals
• Synthesis using distorsion techniques
• Subtractive synthesis
• Speech synthesis
• Reverberation, auditory localization, and other sound-processing techniques
• Composition with computers
• Real-time performance of computer music