Laptop Musicianship: resources
Recommended Texts (they can all be found in the library, you don’t need to buy them but you should dedicate some time to consulting them and getting a flavour for what they are about)
• Reck-Miranda, E. (2003) Composing Music with Computers, Oxford: Focal Press
• Richer, M. (2002) Music Theory (Teach Yourself), London: Hodder & Stoughton
• Levine, M. (2000) The Jazz Theory Book, Petaluma, Sher Music: International Music Publications
• Loy, G. (2006) Musimathics: The Mathematical Foundations of Music, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT press
• Rowe, R. (2001) Machine Musicianship, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT press
• Swiss, T. (1997) Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory, Oxford: Blackwell
Recommended Internet Resources
This blog is in itself a dynamic internet resource. It will grow as the semester progresses with my contributions as well as yours. Consult it often, subscribe to it and you will get updates straight to your preferred email address. A good resource in basic terminology and music theory drills can be found here
Recommended Listening
There is no ‘recommended listening’ as such for this module. Rather the subject matter consists of listening critically to musical material contributed by the students themselves as well as their own original music.
Other Resources
You should set some time aside to learn how to login to the University Digital Library there is a wealth of materials there including online journals, e-books and the catalogue for our CD and DVD collections, both of which are constantly growing.
We have amplifiers and percussion instruments. If you visit the Media Centre in the Ruskin Building you can also find video editing suites you can book, as well as being able to borrow video recorders. Portable hard disk recorders can be borrowed from our technician Kevin McCracken, opposite Hel040.
