Promotional Information

From his long and successful experience as a composer and computer-music researcher, Gareth Loy knows what is challenging and what is important. That comprehensiveness makes Musimathics both exciting and enlightening. The book is crystal clear, so that even advanced issues appear simple. Musimathics will be essential for those who want to understand the scientific foundations of music, and for anyone wishing to create or process musical sounds with computers. -- Jean-Claude Risset, Laboratoire de Mecanique et d'Acoustique, CNRS, France Musimathics is destined to be required reading and a valued reference for every composer, music researcher, multimedia engineer, and anyone else interested in the interplay between acoustics and music theory. This is truly a landmark work of scholarship and pedagogy, and Gareth Loy presents it with quite remarkable rigor and humor. -- Stephen Travis Pope, CREATE Lab, Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara

About the Author

Gareth Loy is a musician and award-winning composer. He has published widely and, during a long and successful career at the cutting edge of multimedia computing, has worked as a researcher, lecturer, programmer, software architect, and digital systems engineer. He is President of Gareth, Inc., a provider of software engineering and consulting services internationally.

Reviews

"From his long and successful experience as a composer and computer-music researcher, Gareth Loy knows what is challenging and what is important. That comprehensiveness makes *Musimathics* both exciting and enlightening. The book is crystal clear, so that even advanced issues appear simple. *Musimathics* will be essential for those who want to understand the scientific foundations of music, and for anyone wishing to create or process musical sounds with computers."--Jean-Claude Risset, Laboratoire de Mecanique et d'Acoustique, CNRS, FrancePlease note: There should be an acute accent over the first "e" in "Mecanique" in the endorser's affiliation. "Volume 1 of Musimathics is the ideal introduction to the science of musical acoustics and composition theory, and volume 2 succeeds as no other tutorial does in making the theory of computer music and digital signal processing accessible to a broad audience. Loy's typically careful treatment leads to a book that combines readability and fun with exhaustive and meticulous coverage of each of the topics he addresses. It can serve equally well as an introduction and as a desk reference for experts." -- Stephen Travis Pope , CREATE Lab, Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara "*Musimathics* is destined to be required reading and a valued reference for every composer, music researcher, multimedia engineer, and anyone else interested in the interplay between acoustics and music theory. This is truly a landmark work of scholarship and pedagogy, and Gareth Loy presents it with quite remarkable rigor and humor."--Stephen Travis Pope, CREATE Lab, Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara "Volume 1 of *Musimathics* is the ideal introduction to the science of musical acoustics and composition theory, and volume 2 succeeds as no other tutorial does in making the theory of computer music and digital signal processing accessible to a broad audience. Loy's typically careful treatment leads to a book that combines readability and fun with exhaustive and meticulous coverage of each of the topics he addresses. It can serve equally well as an introduction and as a desk reference for experts."--Stephen Travis Pope, CREATE Lab, Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara