Music by Computers

Content and contributors

Sounds and Music (Heinz von Foerster)

Systems and Programs

• Online Generation of Sound (M. David Freedman)

• A Computer Sytem for Time-Variant Harmonic Analysis and Synthesis of Musical Tones (James W. Beauchamp)

• Some New Developments in Computer Generated Music (Arthur Roberts)

Algorithms in composition

• Some compositional Techniques involving the use of computers (Lejaren A. Hiller)

• Graphical language for the scores of computer generated sounds (Max Mathews and L. Rosler)

Aesthetics

• Infraudibles (Herbert Brün)

• Operations on waveforms (J. K. Randall)

• Control of consonance and dissonance with nonharmonic overtones (J. R. Pierce and Max Mathews)

• The problem of imperfection in computer music (Gerald Strang)