Learning SuperCollider

What is SuperCollider?

1. SuperCollider Page {GitHub}
   SuperCollider is an audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition
2. Wikipedia Article {WP}
3. History:
   • James McCartney, SC Legacy Page {AudioSynth.com} (McCartney 2002)

Download

SuperCollider for Mac, Windows, and Linux {GitHub}

See also: https://github.com/supercollider

Documentation

1. Documentation
• Documentation Home (SC Help)
• SuperCollider IDE - A guide to the cross-platform SuperCollider coding environment
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Tour of Ugens
2. Quick Reference
• Andrew McWilliams, QuickRef for SuperCollider

Textbooks

Tutorials

1. Video
   
• Eli Fieldsteel (University of Illinois) {YouTube Channel}
  
• Introduction to Audio Coding with SuperCollider (Fall 2021) {YouTube PlayList}
• Intermediate Audio Coding with SuperCollider (Spring 2021) {YouTube PlayList}
• SuperCollider Mini Tutorials {YouTube PlayList}
  
• SuperCollider Tutorial (2013) {YouTube PlayList}
  
2. Other Recommended Tutorials {SC Wiki}
   • Nick Collins, SuperCollider Tutorial {ComposerProgrammer.com}
   • David Michael Cottle, Computer Music with Examples in SuperCollider 3 {Cottle 2005}
   • Mark Polishook, SuperCollider 3 Tutorial
   • Patterns
   • Bruno Ruvario, Part II. Patterns, in A Gentle Introduction to SuperCollider (Ruvario 2015)
     
   • James Harkins, A Practical Guide to Patterns
3. Other Resources
• SCCode.org

Sonification with SuperCollider

See Learning Data Sonification

References

Cottle, David Michael. 2005. Computer Music with Examples in SuperCollider 3. Salt Lake City, UT. {SC Wiki}

Hermann, Thomas, Andy Hunt, and J. G. Neuhoff, eds. 2010 The Sonification Handbook. Berlin: Logos. Available online at: <https://sonification.de/handbook/>.

Koutsomichalis, Marinos. 2013. Mapping and Visualization with SuperCollider. Packt Publishing Ltd. {GB}

McCartney, James. 2002. "Rethinking the Computer Music Language: SuperCollider." Computer Music Journal (Vol. 26, No. 4, Winter): 61–68. {JSTOR}

Ruviaro, Bruno. 2015. A Gentle Introduction to SuperCollider. (November 20, 2015). Palo Alto, CA: CCRMA. Available online at: <https://ccrma.stanford.edu/%7Eruviaro/texts/A_Gentle_Introduction_To_SuperCollider.pdf>

Valle, Andrea. 2016. Introduction to SuperCollider. Berlin: Logos. {GB; Logos}

Wilson, Scott, David Cottle, and Nick Collins, eds. 2011. The SuperCollider Book. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {GB; MIT Press; Code Examples: GitHub}