Electronic and experimental music : technology, music, and culture / Thom Holmes.

Part 1, Electronic music fundamentals. What Is Electronic Music? ; Listening to Electronic Music ; How Electronic Music is Composed ; Electronic Music Composition by Process ; The Physics of Musical Sound ; Analog and Digital Synthesis Basics ; Computer Music Basics ; Tape Composition and Sound Editing ; MIDI, Noise Reduction, and Audio Compression Technologies ; Part 2, History of electronic and computer music. Earliest Experiments in Electronic Music (Pre-1920) ; Electronic Music Performance Instruments (1920-1940) ; The History of Audio Recording Technology ; Edgard Varèse and The Listener's Experiment ; Musique Concrète In France ; Elektronische Musik in Germany ; Other European Electronic Music Studios ; John Cage in the United States ; The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York ; The Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music, Ann Arbor ; The Experimental Music Studio, University of Illinois ; The San Francisco Tape Music Center ; Electronic Music in Canada ; Radiophonic Music in the United Kingdom ; Electronic Music in Latin America ; Electronic Music in Asia and Australia ; Early Computer Music (1950-69) ; Computer Music (1970-85) ; Part 3, Makers of vintage analog and digital synthesizers. Moog Analog Synthesizers ; Buchla Analog Synthesizers ; EMS Analog Synthesizers ; ARP Analog Synthesizers ; Other Analog Synthesizers ; Digital Synthesizers and Samplers ; Part 4, Live electronic music and contemporary practices. Lie Electronic Music - Foundations ; Live Electronic Music – Historical Practices ; Modern Turntablism ; Contemporary Software and Synthesis ; Eurorack ; Appendix I, Historic Studios of Electronic Music by World Region, 1948-70 ; Appendix II, Milestones