Machine tongues XIX: Nyquist, a language for composition and sound synthesis

Computer Music Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 50-60

  Dannenberg, Roger B ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA STRUCTURES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LISP (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); SOUND REPRODUCTION; USER INTERFACES;

MUSIC COMPOSITION; NYQUIST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOUND SYNTHESIS;

COMPUTER MUSIC;

EID: 0031231727     PISSN: 01489267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3681013     Document Type: Article

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