computer music
Synthesized audio art
Computer music is music created, modified, or performed using computers and digital technology.
The term encompasses everything from electronically synthesized sounds to algorithmic composition to digitally processed recordings.
What began as experimental work in academic studios has become standard practice: Most popular music today is computer music in some sense.
The field spans both the creative work itself and its academic study.
- synthesizerElectronic sound-generating instrument
- waveformGraphed oscillation pattern
- frequency modulationEncoding via wave pitch
- live codingWriting code during presentation
- oscillatorCyclic signal generator
sound design · digital audio · convolution · equalization · reverb · Kraftwerk · MIDI · spectral analysis · noise reduction · DAW · compression · sampling
- electronic musictechno, house, synthesizer, drum machine, EDM
- New Musicworld premieres, John Cage, Philip Glass, John Adams, serialism
- synthesizerssynthesizer, synth, modular, analog, oscillator
computer musicacoustic music
Sound without amplification
traditional instruments · orchestral music · chamber music · folk music · a cappella
computer musiclive performance
Unrecorded staged entertainment
live music · human performance · jam session · concert performance · busking
computer musicfolk music
Community-born acoustic songs
classical music · traditional folk · medieval music · roots music · world music
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