Papers by Christopher Dobrian
Notes, Sep 1, 1998
First published in 1985, Computer Music has been embraced worldwide as the best available introdu... more First published in 1985, Computer Music has been embraced worldwide as the best available introduction to the use of computer synthesis in musical composition. This new edition of Computer Music builds on the foundation of the original book to address the revolution in computing ...
New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Jun 4, 2006
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2004
International Computer Music Conference, 1995
Digital computers offer unprecedented flexibility and accuracy for the composition and performanc... more Digital computers offer unprecedented flexibility and accuracy for the composition and performance of polytemporal music involving multiple time streams: polyrhythms, metric modulations, multiple tempi, and precisely calculated independent continuous tempo changes (accelerandi and de-celerandi). This article addresses some important musical and technical issues encountered in music with multiple simultaneous tempi, including music with independently fluctuating tempi. The article includes a brief summary of some important precedents in pre-computerized music, a look at some implementations of polytemporality in computer music, and some suggested techniques for designing and manipulating multiple time streams in computer music composition.
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The concept of networked musical performances has the potential to revolutionize music teaching, ... more The concept of networked musical performances has the potential to revolutionize music teaching, rehearsal and performance. For instance, the Yamaha Disklavier piano has been used to enable a piano teacher to give lessons remotely to a student hundreds of miles ...
Proceedings of the... International …, 1995
Iannis Xenakis formalized the application of the mathematics of probability in music composition.... more Iannis Xenakis formalized the application of the mathematics of probability in music composition.1 He cited a perceived “crisis of serial music”2 as leading logically to a statistical approach to composition rather than a melodic one. When polyphony is sufficiently dense and complex, he posited, “The enormous complexity prevents one from following the tangled lines and ... what will count will be the statistical average of isolated states of the components’ transformations at any given moment.” Xenakis’ explications of statistical control of events, uses of randomness and probability, and granular methods of sound synthesis inspired subsequent generations of instrumental composers and computer musicians.3 His influence has been particularly noteworthy in the field of computer music, not only for his invention and development of the UPIC system, but because from as early as the 1950s his compositional ideas implicated intensive calculation and the generation of large randomized sampl...
… on Current Research Directions in Computer Music …, 2001
Computer-mediated music control devices compell us to reexamine the relationship between performe... more Computer-mediated music control devices compell us to reexamine the relationship between performer and sound, the nature and complexity of which is theoretically unlimited. This essay attempts to formulate some of the key aesthetic issues ...
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