Books and Articles
The first two articles are direct downloads because they were hard to come by. They were published more than 50 years ago, and are therefore beyond copyright. Other books and articles listed will just be links to either online publications or book descriptions. This is just selected works to get you started. See the references in the articles for a lot more material.
| Gabor, Dennis. (1946). Theory Of Communication. In The Journal of the Institution Of Electrical Engineers, 93(3):429-457. | |
| Shannon, C. (1948). A Mathematical Theory of Communication. In The Bell Systems Technical Journal, Vol. 27:379-423, 623-656. | |
| Link | Xenakis, I. (1971) Formalized Music - Chapter X: Concerning time, space, and music.. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. |
| Link | Roads, C. (1988) Introduction to Granular Synthesis . Computer Music Journal. Vol. 12, No. 2 (Summer, 1988), pp. 11-13 |
| Link | Roads, C. (1996) The Computer Music Tutorial. Comprehensive book on all aspects of computer music. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA. |
| Roads, C. (2001) Sound Composition with Pulsars. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. Audio Engineering Society 49(3):134-147 | |
| Link | Roads, C. (2002) Microsound. Book and audio compact disc. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA. |
| Roads, C. (2012) From Grains to Forms. In Makis Solomos, (ed.), Proceedings of the international Symposium Xenakis. La musique électroacoustique (université Paris 8, May 2012) | |
| Link | Roads, C. (2002) Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic. Book with audio excerpts. Oxford University Press. |
| Link | Truax, B. (1990) Composing with Real-time Granular Sound. Perspectives of New Music. USA: Hamilton Printing Company. Pages 120-134. |
| Link | Truax, B. (1994) Discovering inner complexity: Time shifting and transposition with a real-time granulation technique. Computer Music Journal, 18(2), 38-48 |
| Link | Truax, B. (2003) Music and Science Meet at the Micro Level: Time-Frequency Methods and Granular Synthesis. Presented at the Musica Viva conference, Coimbra, Portugal, Sept. 2003 |
| Keller, D. & Truax, B.(1998) Ecologically based granular synthesis . Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, pp. 117-120 | |
| Link | Küehln, E. (1995) Granular Synthesis. Possibly the first WWW publication on the topic? |
| Opie, T. (2003) Creation of a Real-Time Granular Synthesis Instrument for Live Performance. Masters Thesis. Brisbane, Australia. QUT | |
| View HTML | Opie, T. (1999) Sound in a Nutshell: Granular Synthesis. Honours Thesis. Melbourne, Australia. La Trobe University. |
| Mariette, N. (2009) AmbiGrainer - A Higher Order Ambisonic Granulator in Pd Ambisonics Symposium 2009 Conference Proceedings. Graz, Austria | |
| Bencina, R. (2001) Implementing Real-Time Granular Synthesis | |
| View HTML | Underwire interview with BT |
| View HTML | Rothenberg, D. (2013) Bug Music - Includes the use of granular synthesis to decode insect sounds |
| Paul, L. (2011) Granulation of Sound in Video Games |