Electronic Music: Allen Strange's Classic Book Reissued
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> Jason: I find Allen’s work really weird and enticing. I’m not a musician or composer. I’m at best a student. His book is a masterful enticement to exploration.
In the age of plugins and off-the-shelf products that supplant principles and knowledge we so need arts technology books that hold this torch.
I still go back to Dodge and Jerse, Curtis Roads CMT, or Boulangers Csound Book when I am feeling a little jaded with music tech, just to find a spark of inspiration that sets off a new idea.
Allen Strange also wrote a manual for programming the Buchla Music Easel synth:
https://buchla.com/guides/Buchla_Music_Easel_Manual.pdf
Minus the patch storage of the original hardware, you can work through it using Arturia's Buchla Easel standalone/plugin software:
https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/buchla...
One I have seen and strongly recommend is "Computer Music: synthesis, composition, and performance" by Dodge and Jerse (1997 2nd Ed.). It's a great technical -but readable- reference to learn important bottom-up concepts in detail (including graphs and equations). No computer needed! (Of course, some things have changed since 1997 too. But basics are basics.)