The SuperCollider book - Scott Wilson

SuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio
programming languages, with potential applications that include real-time
interaction, installations, electroacoustic pieces, generative music, and
audiovisuals. The SuperCollider Book is the essential reference
to this powerful and flexible language, offering students and professionals a
collection of tutorials, essays, and projects. With contributions from top
academics, artists, and technologists that cover topics at levels from the
introductory to the specialized, it will be a valuable sourcebook both for beginners
and for advanced users. SuperCollider, first developed by James McCartney, is an
accessible blend of Smalltalk, C, and further ideas from a number of programming
languages. Free, open-source, cross-platform, and with a diverse and supportive
developer community, it is often the first programming language sound artists and
computer musicians learn. The SuperCollider Book is the
long-awaited guide to the design, syntax, and use of the SuperCollider language. The
first chapters offer an introduction to the basics, including a friendly tutorial
for absolute beginners, providing the reader with skills that can serve as a
foundation for further learning. Later chapters cover more advanced topics and
particular topics in computer music, including programming, sonification,
spatialization, microsound, GUIs, machine listening, alternative tunings, and
non-real-time synthesis; practical applications and philosophical insigh"s from the
composer's and artist's perspectives; and "under the hood," developer's-eye
views of SuperCollider's inner workings. A Web site accompanying the book offers
code, links to the application itself and its source code, and a variety of
third-party extras, extensions, libraries, and examples.