Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building blocks of music—notes and their intervals—into a more fluid and supple medium. The sensations of point, pulse (series of points), line (tone), and surface (texture) emerge as particle density increases. Sounds coalesce, evaporate, and mutate into other sounds.

Not just another Shell Scripting book, the first half explains the features of the shell; the second half provides real-world shell scripts, organised by topic, with detailed discussion of each script.

The HTML version of the book is free to read online and you can give it to anyone you want so long as you do not charge for it, and do not modify it.

The entire text of this book is included on this web site. Access it through the Table of Contents.

Anyone curious enough to crack the cover of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts certainly will find an intriguing premise stated at the outset: "Sound saturates the arts of this century . . . None of the arts is entirely mute, many are unusually soundful despite their apparent silence, and the traditionally auditive arts grow to sound quite different when included in an array of auditive practices" (p. 2). Surely this seems reasonable--it actually is quite easy to imagine how other arts might be able to point toward new ways of thinking about sound. But which arts, which practices, and to what end?

Joseph Nechvatal
Immersion Into Noise
(University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office in conjunction with Open Humanities Press, 2011)

By refining the definition of noise as that which addresses us outside of our preferred comfort zone, Joseph Nechvatal's Immersion Into Noise investigates multiple aspects of cultural noise by applying the audio understanding of noise to the visual, architectural and cognitive domains. Nechvatal expands and extends our understanding of the function of cultural noise by taking the reader through the immersive and phenomenal aspects of noise into algorithmic and network contexts, beginning with his experience in the Abside of the Grotte de Lascaux.

Here are some tutorials I have written for getting up to speed with this excellent document processing system. Funnily enough I wouldn't consider myself an expert, per se, but I'm learning all the time. I recall finding it quite taxing when I started to learn LaTeX, which is why I have started these tutorials. However, I hope that my experience plays to your advantage because I cover sort of questions and problems I had when I first learning LaTeX which are probably typical for most beginners.

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TeX ( /ˈtɛx/ as in Greek, but often pronounced /ˈtɛk/ in English) is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth[1] and released in 1978.

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Assistant Professor of Music
I am Associate Profesor at the Tulane Univeristy Music Department and Director of the Music Science and Technology Program

My current concentration is in electroacoustic, computer music, research topics in computer music and acoustic music. I am the author of the World Scientific Publishing book, "Introduction to Digital Signal Processing."

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This is the online home of the book “Mercurial: The Definitive Guide”. It was published in 2009 by O'Reilly Media.

Mercurial is a fast, lightweight source control management system designed for easy and efficient handling of very large distributed projects. My book tells you what it is, why you should care, and how you can use it effectively

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs adapted for the Clojure programming language

This book is definitely an introductory tutorial, and by no means a reference. Not all of the new HTML5 elements are covered, nor is CSS3 provided full coverage. The repetition of concepts may aggravate experienced or impatient programmers: For people with some experience with these technologies, and for people who readily glean information from technical books upon first exposure to the given concept, the frequent repetition in this book would border on tiresome, if it weren't presented so pleasantly, oftentimes with humor. On the other hand, the Head First books are predicated on the approach of presenting information in different formats, to maximize learning. Any newbie should appreciate this volume's clear explanations, even if they are presented multiple times, but differently. Also, there is plenty of testing of one's knowledge, to reinforce what has been learned.

This chapter describes how to author help content for Help Viewer and organize it into a help book. Anyone authoring user help for Mac OS X should be familiar with the basic requirements of creating a help book and with the general guidelines for writing user help.

From Gatsby to Apple, or what the 1939 New York World’s Fair has to do with the evolution of color theory.

Bestselling author Nassim Nicholas Taleb continues his exploration of randomness in his fascinating new book, The Black Swan, in which he examines the influence of highly improbable and unpredictable events that have massive impact

The Science of Sound Recording is an introduction to the scientific concepts that make sound recording possible. T

The complete guide to creating generative graphics for print, video and the web.

The philosophy and practice of using a programming language as an artistic tool.

Includes a beginners guide to Processing, and applied tutorials on subjects such as Perlin Noise, Randomness, Fractals, Emergence, Agent Oriented Programming, Three Dimensional Drawing, and Cellular Automata.

Featuring the work of Robert Hodgin, Jared Tarbell, Aaron Koblin, Casey Reas and many more of the finest contemporary generative artists.

The New Science of Adult Attachment and
How It Can Help You Find-And Keep-Love

The Review is a hobby of a single person, an evidently-underworked statistics professor named Cosma Rohilla Shalizi; to drop out of the third person, me. Reviews are posted on no particular schedule. There are no particular limits on subjects, though I try to refrain from venting opinions in public on matters about which I know little or nothing.

The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") was a list of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church.

Comfort Zone - August 2009

Generative Art: A Practical Guide Using Processing (Manning 2011)

We publish computer books for professionals--programmers, system administrators, designers, architects, managers and others.

Most people probably feel like they know their own brain reasonably well. After all, our thoughts form the core of who we are, or at least who we understand ourselves to be. But it turns out we know only a tiny portion of what our brains are doing and where our own thoughts come from

summary A good overview of the current agile practices for software developers

Jane Fulton Suri is Managing Partner and Creative Director at IDEO. As such, she’s responsible for evolving excellence in content and craft, human insight, and design thinking in service of clients worldwide.

Thoughtless Acts? is a book by Jane Fulton Suri and IDEO that invites you to notice the subtle and amusing ways that people react to the world around them. These “thoughtless acts” reveal how people behave in a world not perfectly tailored to their needs and demonstrate the kind of real-world observational approach that can inspire designers and anyone involved in creative endeavors

We’re very pleased to announce that this computer music textbook written by Phil Burk, Larry Polansky, Douglas Repetto, Mary Roberts, and Dan Rockmore is finally back online in a free, publicly accessible form!

At this site, you'll find information about Python books I've written, Python training services, Python resources on the net, and a bit about my background. Click on one of the links below to go to the topic you're interested in. I usually update the date at the bottom of this page when I make changes.

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Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or design tool. You’re well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware—our own brains? Learning new skills and new technology is critical to your career, and it’s all in your head.

In this book by Andy Hunt, you’ll learn how our brains are wired, and how to take advantage of your brain’s architecture. You’ll learn new tricks and tips to learn more, faster, and retain more of what you learn.

his document is a self-learning document for a course in Python programming. This course contains (1) a part for beginners, (2) a discussion of several advanced topics that are of interest to Python programmers, and (3) a Python workbook with lots of exercises

The publisher has been kind enough to allow my chapter on SuperCollider’s server internals to be posted online as a preview chapter here. I think this is great, because understanding SuperCollider’s server internals will be of interest not just to SuperCollider developers and users, but to anyone involved in creating dynamic real-time audio software

At the end of 1999, these books were named among the best twelve physical-science monographs of the century by American Scientist, along with: Dirac on quantum mechanics, Einstein on relativity, Mandelbrot on fractals, Pauling on the chemical bond, Russell and Whitehead on foundations of mathematics, von Neumann and Morgenstern on game theory, Wiener on cybernetics, Woodward and Hoffmann on orbital symmetry, Feynman on quantum electrodynamics, Smith on the search for structure, and Einstein's collected papers. Wow!

The parallel with Microsoft users vs. Java users seems to be all too obvious: Microsoft as the strict father: If you are loyal you will be rewarded, but if you stray you will be punished; whereas in the Java (or Python) community benefits and moral goodness flow from helping each other (which includes sharing open source software, and, apparently, bikeshedding :-).

Recently I got a review copy of "Hello World", and a colleague kindly lent me his copy of "Practical Programming". I think it's interesting to compare the two a bit, since they both claim to be teaching Python programming to people who haven't programmed before

Do More Faster
TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
The new book by David Cohen & Brad Feld

This is a conversion of the Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 2.6 to Python 3.

The Clever Algorithms project is an effort to describe a large number of algorithmic techniques from the the field of Artificial Intelligence in a complete, consistent, and centralized manner such that they are accessible, usable, and understandable.

The Clever Algorithms project is currently hosted online at http://www.CleverAlgorithms.com

This is a repository for the Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes project for hosting, versioning, and collaboration, used during the development of the content for deliverables (website and book), as well as for the ongoing maintenance of the outcomes from the project.

"Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes" by Jason Brownlee PhD describes 45 algorithms from the field of Artificial Intelligence. All algorithm descriptions are complete and consistent to ensure that they are accessible, usable and understandable by a wide audience.

“How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey Into the Heart of Growing Old” by Marc E. Agronin, M.D.

This is the site for the book "Learn Python The Hard Way". The book is a very beginner book for people who want to learn to code. If you can already code then the book will probably drive you insane. It's intended for people who have no coding chops to build up their skills before starting a more detailed book.

With thanks to Alan Apt of Prentice Hall for giving me back the copyright and Chip Coldwell for reproducing it from the original tex files, here finally is a digital version of On Lisp.

Eloquently argued and engagingly written, The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life provides a compelling missing link between theory of mind and the need for God

HTML Dog has been dishing out healthy code treats since 2003, and currently serves up around 1,500,000 page views a month. The idea is to take the somewhat convoluted official specs for XHTML and CSS and present them in a much more readable fashion.

Master web designer Dan Cederholm (SimpleBits, Dribbble) shares the when, why, and how of designing with CSS3 in real browsers, right now.

Arduino: A Quick-Start Guide Book Review

released 4/2011
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.

New self-help book overpowers current SHU required reading

This revision of Manning's popular The Quick Python Book offers a clear, crisp introduction to the elegant Python programming language and its famously easy-to-read syntax. Written for programmers new to Python, this updated edition covers features common to other languages concisely, while introducing Python's comprehensive standard functions library and unique features in detail.

Alessandro Cipriani - Maurizio Giri
ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN
Theory and Practice with Max/MSP - Vol. I

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Reality is Broken

Xcode is the complete toolset for building Mac OS X and iOS applications - and with Xcode 4, the tools have been redesigned to be faster, easier to use, and more helpful than ever before. The Xcode IDE understands your project’s every detail, identifies mistakes in both syntax and logic, and will even fix your code for you. Quite simply, Xcode 4 will help you write better code.