A comprehensive update of the essential reference to SuperCollider, with new material on machine learning, musical notation and score making, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, and the cross-platform GUI library.
A comprehensive update of the essential reference to SuperCollider, with new material on machine learning, musical notation and score making, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, and the cross-platform GUI library.
SuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio programming languages, with wide-ranging applications across installations, real-time interaction, electroacoustic pieces, generative music, and audiovisuals. Now in a comprehensively updated new edition, The SuperCollider Book remains the essential reference for beginners and advanced users alike, offering students and professionals a user-friendly guide to the language's design, syntax, and use. Coverage encompasses the basics as well as explorations of advanced and cutting-edge topics including microsound, sonification, spatialization, non-standard synthesis, and machine learning.
Second edition highlights-
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New chapters on musical notation and score making, machine learning, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, SuperCollider on small computers, and the cross-platform GUI library .
New tutorial on installing, setting up, and running the SuperCollider IDE .
Technical documentation of implementation and information on writing your own unit generators .
Diverse artist statements from international musicians .
Accompanying code examples and extension libraries
By:
Scott Wilson,
David Cottle
Foreword by:
James McCartney
Edited by:
Nick Collins
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 203mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262049702
ISBN 10: 0262049708
Pages: 896
Publication Date: 27 May 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword by James McCartney Introduction to the Second Edition, by Scott Wilson, David Cottle, and Nick Collins Part I: Tutorials 1 Beginner’s Tutorial, by David Cottle 2 The Unit Generator, by Joshua Parmenter 3 Composing with SuperCollider, by Scott Wilson and Julio d’Escriván 4 Ins and Outs, by Marije A. J. Baalman, Miguel Negrão, Stefan Kersten, and Till Bovermann Part II: Advanced Tutorials 5 Programming in SuperCollider, by Iannis Zannos 6 Events and Patterns, by Ron Kuivila 7 Just in Time Programming, by Julian Rohrhuber and Alberto de Campo 8 Object Modelling, by Alberto de Campo, Julian Rohrhuber, and Till Bovermann Part III: Editors and GUI 9 Installing, Setting Up and Running the SuperCollider IDE, by Norah Lorway 10 Alternative IDEs for SuperCollider, by Konstantinos Vasilakos 11 SuperCollider on Small Computers, by Matthew John Yee-King 12 The SuperCollider GUI Library, by Eli Fieldsteel IV Practical Applications 13 Sonification and Auditory Display in SuperCollider, by Alberto de Campo, Julian Rohrhuber, Katharina Vogt, and Till Bovermann 14 Spatialization with SuperCollider, by Marije A. J. Baalman and Scott Wilson 15 Machine Listening in SuperCollider, by Nick Collins 16 Microsound Alberto de Campo and Marcin Pietruszewski 17 Alternative Tunings with SuperCollider, by Fabrice Mogini 18 Non-Real Time Synthesis and Object Oriented Composition, by Brian Willkie and Joshua Parmenter 19 Stochastic and Deterministic Algorithms for Sound Synthesis and Composition, by Sergio Luque and Daniel Mayer Part V: Projects and Perspectives 20 Implementing New Language Syntax Using SuperCollider’s Pre-Processor, by James Harkins 21 Interface Investigations, by Thor Magnusson 22 SuperCollider in Japan, by Takeko Akamatsu 23 Dialects, Constraints, and Systems within Systems, by Julian Rohrhuber, Tom Hall, and Alberto de Campo 24 Artists’ Statements, from: Juan Gabriel Alzate Romero, Helene Hedsund, Patrick Hartono, Norah Lorway, Andrea Valle, Marianne Teixidó, Neil Cosgrove, Shelly Knotts, Juan Sebastián Lach, Mileece, Sam Pluta, Ann Warde, Anna Xambó Sedo, 25 Machine Learning in SuperCollider, by Chris Kiefer and Shelly Knotts 26 Notations and Score-Making, by Tom Hall, Newton Armstrong and Richard Hoadley 27 SCTweets: Character Matters, by Fellipe M. Martins VI Developer Topics 28 The SuperCollider Language Implementation, by Stefan Kersten 29 Writing Unit Generator Plug-ins, by Dan Stowell and Christof Ressi 30 Inside scsynth, by Ross Bencina Subject Index Code Index
Nick Collins is Lecturer in Music Informatics at the University of Sussex. Scott Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Birmingham, England. David Cottle is Lecturer Associate Professor at the School of Music, University of Utah.
