Recommended Reference Books

(in no particular order)

• Brown, Andrew R. 2007. Computers in Music Education. Routledge.
• Winograd, Terry & Flores, Fernando. 1986 (reissue 1995). Understanding Computers and Cognition : A new foundation for design. Addison Wesley.
• Dodge, Charles. & Jerse, Thomas. 1997. Computer Music: Synthesis, composition, and performance (2nd Edition). Schirmer Books.
• Petzold, Charles. 1999. Code: The hidden language of computer hardware and software. Microsoft Press
• Holzman, Steven. 1995. Digital Mantras. The MIT Press.
• Roads, Curtis. 1996. The Computer Music Tutorial. The MIT Press.
• Kurzweil, Ray. 1990. The Age of Intelligent Machines. The MIT Press.
• Kurzweil, Ray. 1999. The Age of Spiritual Machines. Pheonix.
• Wishart, Trevor. 1996. On Sonic Art. Harwood Academic Publishers.
• Cook, Nicholas. 1998. Music: A very short introduction. OUP.
• Heidegger, Martin. 1957 (trans 1977, reissue 1982). The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays. William Lovitt (Translator). Harpercollins.
• Chadabe, Joel. 1997. Electric Sound: The past and promise of electronic music. Prentice Hall.
• Minsky, Marvin.1985. The Society of Mind. Picador, Pan Books.
• Xenakis, Iannis. 1971. Formalized Music: Thought and mathematics in composition. Pendragon Press.
• Rowe, Robert. 1993. Interactive Music Systems: Machine listening and composing. The MIT Press.
• Dreyfus, Hubert. 1979. What computers still can't do: A critique of artificial reason. The MIT Press.
• Dewey, John. 1934. Art as Experience. Berkley Publishing Group
• Swanwisk, Keith. 1994. Musical Knowledge: Intuition, analysis, and music education. Routledge.
• Weizenbaum, Joseph. 1976. Computer Power and Human Reason: From judgment to calculation. Freeman.
• Levenson, Thomas. 1994. Measure for Measure: A musical history of science. Touchstone.
• Baroni, Marion & Callegari, Laura. 1982. Musical Grammars and Computer Analysis. Leo S. Olschki.
• Pope, Stephen Travis. 1991. The Well-Tempered Object: Musical applications of object-oriented software technology. The MIT Press.
• Wallin, Nils & Merker, Björn & Brown, Steven. 2000. The Origins of Music. The MIT Press.
• Bruce Eckel. 1998. Thinking In Java. Prentice Hall. Free download over the web.
• Cooper, James. 2000. Java Design Patterns: A tutorial. Addison Wesley.
• Kernighan, Brian & Pike, Rob. 1999. The Practice of Programming. Addison Wesley.
• Miranda, Eduardo. 1998. Computer Sound Synthesis for the Electronic Musician. Focal Press.
• Miranda, Eduardo. 2001. Composing Music with Computers. Focal Press.
• McCullough, Malcolm. 1996. Abstracting Craft: The practiced digital hand. The MIT Press.
• Flake, Gary William. 1999. The computational Beauty of Nature: Computer explorations of fractals, chaos, complex systems, and adaption. The MIT Press.
• Cope, David. 2001. Virtual Music. The MIT Press.
• Polansky, Larry et al 2001. Music and Computers. Web Book.
• Roads, Curtis. 2002. Microsound. MIT Press.
• Perry R. Cook. 2002. Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications. A K Peters Ltd
• Himanen, Pekka. 2001. The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business. Random House.
• Niemeyer, Patrick and Knudsen, Jonathan. 2002. Learning Java, Second Edition. O'Reilly
• Lyon, Douglas and Rao, Hayagriva. 1998. Java Digial Signal Processing. M&T Books.
• Abelson, Harold. Garald Sunnman & Julie Sussman.  1996. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. The MIT Press.
• Grand, Steve. 2003. Creation: Life and how to make it. Harvard University Press.
• Baggi, Denis (ed). 1992. Readings in Computer Generated Music. IEEE Computer Society Press.
• Moore, Richard F. 1990. Elements of Computer Music. Prentice-Hall.
  

Places for information and inspiration

• The Computational Arts Reseach Group - Making music and art through programming.
• QUT Music - The home of jMusic and a lively academic computer music community.
• ICMA - International Computer Music Association - The peak international body.
• The ICMA Software library - A categorised list of computer music software
• ACMA - The Australasian Computer Music Association
• Sonic Arts Network - The association of computer and electronic musicians in the UK.
• Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) - For all those great but obscure computer music CDs and information.
• MIT Machine Listening Group - The Media Lab are focused on computer music, amongst other things. In Boston, USA.
• Ircam - Located in Paris, Ircam is one of Europe's biggest and most productive computer music centres.
• CCRMA - Max Matthews and John Chowning have a few years on us, but an attitude we admire.
• Digital Music Research Group - University of Bristol, England, are dedicated to the development of tools that enable musical creativity.
• GNU/UNESCO free music software list.

People and projects

• Paul Lansky - Cmix creator, composer, head of music at Princeton.
• Gérard Assayag - Open Music creator, and director of Computer Assisted Composition at Ircam.
• Rick Taube - Common Music creator, algorithmic music expert, and professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
• Danny Oppenheim - Dmix creator, compositional usability enthusiast, and IBM researcher.
• Barry Vercoe - Csound and SAOL creator, head of Machine Listening Group at MIT Media Lab.
• James McCartney - SuperCollider creator, digital audio guru.
• Phil Burk - co-creator of HMSL and jSyn and PortAudio mainstay (see below).
• Michael Gogins - The creator of Silence (a composition environment written in Java) and of JCsound.
• Fredrik Ehnbom - Creator of a Java-based audio file player (also) called Silence.
• Mikael Laurson - Patchwork developer, which inspired Open Music (above), Lecturer at the Sibelius Academy in Finland.
• Peter Stone - Symbolic Composer creator.
• Peter Hanappe - Wrote the Varèse music system (a Scheme interpreter in Java that aims to integrate composition and synthesis) and the iiwu software sampler, and he enjoys singing in choirs.
• Yann Orlarey, Stephane Letz & Dominique Fober - Creators of Elody at GRAME. Elody is a visual music composition environment employing concepts of lambda-calculus and is written in Java.
• David Cope - EMI and CUE (ALICE) creator. A cut-down version of EMI called SARA is availible. Cope is a prolific author who writes about music and composition and is Professor of music at UC Santa Cruz.
• Guillermo Pozzati - Creator of Gen, a MIDI environment built in Lisp.
• Alfio Fazio - Creator of PRIE, an object focused MIDI composition environment. Tutorials.
• Andriy Biletskyy - Creator of Doctor Webern and Doctor Hermholz. Melbourne-based musician.
• Michael McNabb - Creator of the Java MIDI Kit and Fanstasia, a networked visual MIDI processing environment.
• Henkjan Honing and Peter Desain - Developed LOCO for composing in Lisp and have extensive related research.
• Leigh Smith - Maintains the NeXT MusicKit developed by David Jaffe. The MusicKit is philosophically and metaphorically very close to jMusic.
• Paul Hudak - Creator of the Haskore computer music system. A music, rather than sound, description language of quite elegant design.
• Paul Berg - Developer of AC Toolbox , a very extensive Lisp-based Algorithmic composition environment, at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, Netherlands
• Nick Didkovsky - Creator of JMSL which is a Java variation on the well-known HMSL composition language.
• William Will - Leader of the XEMO project, an open source music and audio project using Java Bean technology.
• Emanuel Borsboom - Developer of Zrs.Synth. A java-applet and app for visualy building synthesis structures.
• Jim Bumgardner - Wrote Syd (formerly "SoftSynth"), an instrument editor and software synthesizer.
• Tim Thompson - Developer of KeyKit, a awk-like programming language and GUI for algorithmic and realtime musical experimentation with MIDI data.
• Kjartan Olafsson - Is developing CALMUS (Calculated Music) a composition environment written in Lisp.
• Bruno Lartillot - Developer of Compo, a Lisp based music system that works with Open Music.
• Robert Marsanyi - Wrote JavaMidi which is a library that enables MIDI I/O from java via QuickTime.
• David Sharp - Wrote LMUSe an program that converts L-Systems (fractal-like) into MIDI files.
• Gerrit Gehnen- Developed IDI i/o drivers for Windows that work with JavaSound.
• Ross Bencina and Phil Burk - are the primary authors of portaudio, the cross-platform audio I/O toolk.
• Brian Klock - Leader of the JSynthLib project developing a synthesizer patch editor and librarian in Java.
• Christopher Lauer - Developer of Sonogram, the Java spectral analyser and visualiser.
• Athomas Goldberg - Maintains Java OpenAL (JOAL) that provides bindings to AL's 3D audio spatialisaition capabilities.
• Kees van den Doel - Wrote the JASS (Java Audio Sound System) library for real time Java audio signal processing.
• Peter Salomonsen and Jon Åkerstrøm developed the Frinkia audio and music workstation application.
  

Software to use with jMusic

• Audacity - Open Source Audio Editor
• LAoE - Audio waveform editor written in Java, released under the GPL.
  
• Schroeder - Sampled Audio Editor (Java 1.2 +)
• JaWaveEdit - Sampled Audio Editor (Java 1.1+)
• QuickTime - Multimedia player for Mac OS and Windows.
• MidiShare - A MIDI i/o library availible for many platforms.
• Sonogram - An excellent Java spectral visualisation program by Christopher Lauer.
• Audio Development System - An open source Audio and MIDI recording and playback API in Java.
  

Information online

• The Digital Instrument Building web resource that features jMusic tutorials focused on music software development.
• Java Home - Sun's site with everything official on Java.
• Music and Computers - Information on digital sound and music. By Larry Polansky et al. 2001.
• Music DSP FAQ - A useful site with basic descriptions and useful links for more details.
• Concepts of Digital Signal Processing - Diemo Schwarz's online guide at Ircam.
• MIDI and Audio File format info - A very informative, and sometime humerous or abusive site.
• jMusic is mentioned in the Web Audio Working Group Report: Interactive Audio on The Web 2002