Computermusiker

Reading Lists

Items in bold text are currently being read. Items in strikethrough have been read. Everything else is queued to read, or in some cases re-read.

Literature

Fiction & Mythology

• James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
• J. A. B. Van Buitenen - The Mahabharata, Volume 1
• Italo Calvino - The Baron in the Trees
• Click Nilson - Collected Rewritings

History

• Herodotus - The Histories

Comic Books / Graphic Novels

• Mary Safro - Drugs & Wires
• Jamie Hernández - Maggie The Mechanic
• John Pound - Ran Dum

Music

Music History / Theory / Practice

• Curtis Roads - Composers and the Computer
• Martin Roberts - Fantasma
• Derek Bailey - Improvisation
• Daphne Oram - An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics
• Annette Vande Gorne - Treatise on Writing Acousmatic Music on Fixed Media
• Jliat - Bad Music

Technical

Computer Music / DSP / Math / Physics / Electronics

• Silvanus P. Thompson - Calculus Made Easy
• Hermann Helmholtz - On the Sensations of Tone

Programming / Computer Science

• Ben Klemens - 21st Century C
• Jens Gustedt - Modern C
• Steve Oualline - Practical C Programming
• Dominik Picheta - Nim in Action

Critical Theory

• Ibram X. Kendi - How to be an antiracist
• Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread