Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming Learning Music with Code Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming provides a foundation in music and code for the beginner. It shows how coding empowers new forms of creative expression while simplifying and automating many of the tedious aspects of production and composition. With the help of online interactive examples this book covers the fundamentals of rhythm chord structure and melodic composition alongside the basics of digital production. Each new concept is anchored in a real-world musical example that will have you making beats in a matter of minutes. Music is also a great way to learn core programming concepts such as loops variables lists and functions Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming is designed for beginners of all backgrounds including high school students undergraduates and aspiring professionals and requires no previous experience with music or code. | Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming Learning Music with Code GBP 34.99 1
Live Looping in Musical Performance Lusophone Experiences in Dialogue Live Looping in Musical Performance offers a diverse range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the application of live looping technology by lusophone performers and composers. This book explores various aspects including the aesthetic component instrumentation and setup highlighting the versatility of this technology in music-making. Written by musicians and researchers from Portuguese-speaking countries this book comprises eleven chapters that delve into various musical contexts genres and practices. The novelty of including collaborative texts written alongside non-professional researchers offers the possibility of drawing from real experience to consider how live looping has been changing and cyborguising the concept of music the ritual of the performance the identity of the musicians and the public's expectations. Live Looping in Musical Performance provides cutting-edge reading for composers and performers as well as ethnomusicologists students and researchers working in the areas of music production technology and performance. This book addresses a broader audience both academic and non-academic who are interested in new processes of musical creativity in a post-human world. | Live Looping in Musical Performance Lusophone Experiences in Dialogue GBP 35.99 1
Bringing Set and Costume Designs to Fruition Made by Teams Bringing Set and Costume Designs to Fruition: Made by Teams dives into the collaborative working relationships between set and costume designers with their technical counterparts throughout the theatrical production process from concept to execution. Set and costume designers render environments and characters for a wide array of performative events; skilled artisans and technologists bring these visions to life. This book explores the dynamic between those who decide what the set and costumes should look like and those who make them work including scene designers costume designers scene shops and costume shops. The book discusses how to identify resources ask the right questions and engage in healthy collaborations. Following these fundamentals are practical activities and interviews with industry professionals that demonstrate how these skills can be applied to a broad range of productions and other avenues for creative design and production. Bringing Set and Costume Designs to Fruition is written for emerging professionals in set and costume design as well as students in courses across a theatre degree program including stagecraft costume construction scene design and introduction to theatrical design and production. | Bringing Set and Costume Designs to Fruition Made by Teams GBP 29.99 1
Soundwalking Through Time Space and Technologies Soundwalking brings together a diverse group of contemporary scholars artists and thinkers in one of the first comprehensive studies of soundwalking – the practice of moving through space while carefully listening to what it has to say – to address urgent challenges and concerns of an environmental ethical social and technological nature. Besides gaining insight into the historical development of soundwalking as a scholarly method and artistic genre the reader will have a chance to learn from emerging voices concerned with this practice of many different backgrounds and positionalities. Soundwalking demonstrates how attentive listening and walking might help with more careful and responsible navigation through the complex dimensions of our shared environments and entangled histories often imperceptible on a day-to-day basis. The book encourages scholars artists and also those unfamiliar with the concept to engage with it in their respective fields and subjects of interest as an interdisciplinary method of critical inquiry and a creative mode of communication. This book inspires readers to discover anew the potential of walking and listening and will be of interest to students researchers and practitioners in the areas of studies directly concerned with sound and beyond including environmental humanities arts design landscape architecture media and cultural studies. Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Soundwalking Through Time Space and Technologies GBP 34.99 1