Computer Music Research

• The Csound Front Page

  Information and a FAQ for the Csound Program.

• Csound Magazine

  Articles for both new and seasoned Csound users.

• Robin Whittle's Csound Page

  Introductory material plus some development ideas.

• on-line Csound Manual

  You can look at this hypertext version of the manual to get an idea of Csound's capabilities.

• sound.media.mit.edu

  The main ftp site. Has Csound for the Mac and UNIX machines, plus the manual.

• ftp.maths.bath.ac.uk

  contains Csound programs to run on a PC, plus some Csound utilities, and the file examples.zip

• wendy.ucsd.edu

  There's another file of example instruments in here.

• Csound Instruments

  A collection of instruments including analog-style synths, waveguides, granular instruments, and audio effects.

• Csound Instruments by Steven Cook
• JMC Instruments

  A collection of Csound instruments, mainly physical modeling and virtual analog.

• MIDI2CS

  Homepage for the DOS program that will create Csound score files from MIDI files.

Computer Music Journal

The Computer Music Journal Archives are accessible via the web. You can find abstracts and editor's notes for several volumes of the CMJ, a few articles, source code, subscription and submission information, as well as a few more links.

Music Research Digest

The Music Research DIgest is a mailing list concerning computers and their applications to music representation systems, information retrieval systems for musical scores, music printing, music analysis, musicology and ethnomusicology and tertiary music education. It does NOT cover MIDI or electronic music. You can access the Music Research Digest Archive - read the index for more info on the list.

Research Institutions

• CCRMA
• CERL Sound Group
• CNMAT (the Center For New Music and Audio Technologies)

  CNMAT (a satellite of the UC Berkeley Department of Music) seeks to promote, produce and present the creative interaction between music and technology.

• Computer Music Department of CNUCE/C.N.R.
• Institute of Sonology

  At the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

• IRCAM - You can find information on courses offered, software, and search through their IRCAM Multimedia Library

  IRCAM also maintains an ftp site, but they ask that you not use it during the day if possible.

• CREATE

  (Center For Research in Electronic Art Technology)

• MIT Media Laboratory Machine Listening Group
• Music Technology Group (MTG)

  Part of the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain, focusing on audio processing technologies.

• UCSC Electronic Music Studio
• Computer Music Group at the Laboratory of Integrated Systems

  Their ftp site has some software packages for Silicon Graphics workstations.

• Oberlin Conservatory - TIMARA
• Winham Computer Music Laboratory

  Some background info and the CMIX music synthesis language.

• University of Plymouth Future Music Lab
• Center for Studies in Music Technology

  From Yale. Briefly lists some ongoing research, but mostly links to other sites.

Other Items of Interest

• Spectral Modeling Synthesis

  A method and implementation of music analysis, transformation, and synthesis.

• Acoustic Calculator

  Web based tool for computing reverb time and modes of a room.

• PLUM - Programming Languages Used for Music

  Information on the various languages used for composing music.

• comp.music.research

  newsgroup.

• SHARC Timbre Database

  A public domain database of spectral information for various musical instruments.

• The Fractal Music Project

  Examples of fractal music, along with papers and other references.

• Chua's Oscillator: Applications of Chaos to Sound and Music
• Music, Mind, Machine

  a site dedicated to computational modeling of musical knowledge and cognition, more specifically the work of Peter Desain (NICI) and Henkjan Honing (ILLC).