Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Language of Lisp
  3. Functions and Data
  4. Etudes, Op. 1: The Lisp Listener
  5. Lisp Evaluation
  6. The Art of Lisp Programming
  7. Etudes, Op. 2: Musical Math
  8. Iteration and the Loop Macro
  9. Etudes, Op. 3: Iteration, Rows and Sets
  10. Parameterized Sound Description
  11. Metalevel Representation
  12. Etudes, Op. 4: Score Genereration
  13. Algorithms and Processes
  14. Etudes Op. 5: Steve Reich's Piano Phase
  15. Microtonality, Tunings and Modes
  16. Mapping
  17. Etudes Op. 6: Sonification of Chaos
  18. Randomness and Chance Composition
  19. Markov Processes
  20. Patterns and Composition
  21. Etudes, Op. 7: Automatic Jazz
  22. Etudes, Op. 8: György Ligeti's Désordre
  23. Spectral Composition
  24. Beyond MIDI