Introduction to the Creation of Electroacoustic Music

Excellent work about EA Music... we need this kind of books with a lot of useful information...

This book covers everything you need to know about Music and new technologies field. From physics of sound to complex MIDI network technology and it ends with perfect chapter of Audience in Electroacoustical Music. There are also etudes (excercises) which makes you practise what you have learned.The only chapter I don't like was the "Composing Electroacoustic Music", which is really not enough for people who really intend to compose serious music. First he starts with the basics of music and on the next page you see 12-tone row and advanced 20th century compositional techniques. There are no Beethoven, Debussy etc. that made a lot for Schoenberg's 12-tone system. But there are other books that will teach you that.Even if most of the text is out of date, it's one of Introductional books to this field of music. I believe it is a School Book in the university in US where mr. Pellman teaches.At the end... even my 50 years old father understood the text in the book. It's very well written and understandable for the most uneducated newcomers.

It's good that Sam has written down so many of his ideas, becuase he could never remember them if he didn't. I found this book was good. for reading.

this book has some very good aspects and some not-so-good ones; mainly, the chapters on computer music and MIDI production are swiftly going out of date, and there is no way to keep it updated without yearly appendices to the text itself. the book covers analog tape recording and splicing in good detail, especially for someone trying to do it on his/her own with no official teaching of it. pellman's listening guides are excellent as well.