BAIN MUSC 336
Introduction to Computer Music

History

Online Resources

1. Historical Timelines
   • Jeffery Hass, Electronic Music Historical Timeline {Hass 2020}
   • Kristine H. Burns, History of Electronic and Computer Music {Univ. of Victoria}
   • Mark Ballora, MUSIC 434 History of Electroacoustic Music: Timeline {Penn State}
   • Computer History Museum, Timeline of Computing History {ComputerHistory.org}
2. Early Electronic Instruments
   • Simon Crab, 120 Years of Electronic Music: The history of electronic music from 1800 to 2019 {120years.net}
   • Hugh Davies, Electronic Instruments {Grove} (Grove 2001)
   • Thaddeus Cahill's Teleharmonium {WP}
   • Video: The Telharmonium {YouTube} (Doty 2012)
   • Red Bull Music Academy, Instrumental Instruments {RBMA}
   • Theremin {RMBA; WP}
   • Ondes Martenot {RBMA; WP}
   • Video: The Ondes Martenot {YouTube} (Doty 2012)
   • Mellotron {WP}
   • Paul McCartney demonstrates the Mellotron {YouTube}
3. A Brief History of...
• Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center {Columbia}
• Video: The Story of the RCA (Mark II) Synthesizer {YouTube}
• CNMAT, Prehistory and History of Max {GitHub}
• Hass, A Brief History of Sound Synthesis {Hass 2020}
• IRCAM, History of IRCAM: Key Dates {IRCAM}
• Mauer, A Brief History of Algorithmic Composition {CCRMA}
• MMA, The History of MIDI {Midi.org}
• Video: MIDI 30th Anniversary Video {YouTube}
• Moog Foundation
• A Brief History of the Theremin {Video: YouTube}
  
• 50th Anniversary of the Moog Modular Synthesizer {Video: YouTube}
• Reverb.com
• Electric Rhythm: The History of the Drum Machine {Video: YouTube; Reverb}
• The ARP 2600: The Story of a Legendary Synthesizer {Video: YouTube; Reverb}
4. Current Research & Creative Activity
   See: CCRMA | CIRMMT | CNMAT | C4DM | IRCAM | ICMA | MIT Media Lab | SEAMUS | STEIM

Bibliography

Baker, Joanne. 2018. "The Doctor Who theme and beyond: female pioneers of electronic music. Nature (November 16, 2019). {Nature}

Burk, Phil, Larry Polansky, Douglas Repetto, Mary Roberts and Dan Rockmore. 2011. Music and Computers:  A Theoretical and Historical Approach, Archival Version. Available online at: <http://musicandcomputersbook.com>.

Burns, Kristine H. History of Electronic and Computer Music: Including Automatic Instruments and Composition Machines. Available online at: <https://people.finearts.uvic.ca/%7Easchloss/course_mat/MU307/HISTORY.html>.

Cage, John. 1961. Silence: Lectures and Writings. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. {GB}

Chadabe, Joel. 1997. Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. {GBd}

Collins, Nicholas and Julio d'Escrivan Rincón. 2017. The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. {GB}

Collins, Nicholas, Margaret Schedel and Scott Wilson. 2013. Electronic Music. New York: Cambridge University Press. {GB}

Copeland, Jack and Jason Long. "Turing and the History of Computer Music."  Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing (May 31, 2017): 189-218. {SpringerLink}

Cox, Christopher and Daniel Warner, ed. 2004. Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. New York: Continuum. {GBd}

Davies, Hugh. "Electronic instruments." Grove Music Online. 2001. {Grove}

Dean, Roger T., ed. 2018. The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. New York: Oxford. {GB}

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Doty, Marc. 2013. The Foundation of Synthesis Videos, with Marc Doty. {Moog Foundation}

Emmerson, Simon and Leigh Landy, eds. 2016. Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB}

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Hass, Jeffery. 2020. Introduction to Computer Music: An Electronic Textbook, 2nd ed. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University. Available online at: <https://cmtext.indiana.edu>.

Holmes, Thom. 2015. Electronic and Experimental Music, 5th ed. New York: Routledge. {GB}

Landy, Leigh. 2007. Understanding the Art of Sound Organization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {GB}

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McLean and Roger T. Dean, eds. 2018. The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB}

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Roads, Curtis. 2015. Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic. New York: Oxford. {GB; Companion Website}

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Stubbs, David. 2018. Future Sounds: The Story of Electronic Music from Stockhausen to Skrillex. New York: Faber & Faber. {GB}