SYSTEM DESIGN CRITERIA FOR THE COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE OF ABSTRACT MUSICS, WITH CASE STUDY.

摘要

The design of systems for the composition and performance of computer music is based on a series of models: acoustic models, sonological models, syntactic models, semantic models, and performance models. Design begins with the selection of a root model. The model used here is that of arbitrary tonality originally proffered by J. R. Pierce. The thesis then considers the required hardware, the constructs of the software resources, and performance criteria. In so doing, the areas considered span acoustics, psychoacoustics, music, man-machine interface, system software organisation, and performance interface design.