For many years the integration of real-time digital audio signal processing with dynamic control has been one of the most significant issues facing live electro-acoustic music. While real-time electro-acoustic music systems began to appear as early as the 1970's, for approximately two decades a lack of portability and prohibitive cost restricted their availability to a limited number of electronic music studios and research centers. / The rapid development of computer and music technologies in the 1990's enabled desktop-based real-time digital audio signal processing, making it available for general use. The introduction of the Max/MSP programming language in the 1990's ushered in a new era in electro-acoustic music by bringing a new unified environment for real-time digital signal processing and dynamic control to a wide audience. / The potential of the Max/MSP programming environment for applications to live electro-acoustic music is the subject of this thesis. A prototype example of a real-time electro-acoustic music system based on Max/MSP is developed and discussed.* / *This dissertation includes a CD that is compound (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following applications: Mac OS 8.5; Opcode Max 3.5; Opcode OMS 3.6.2; Cycling '73 MSP; Microsoft Word 98; & Finale 3.5.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.37595 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Protsidym, Oles. |
| Contributors | Pennycook, Bruce (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Faculty of Music.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001746516, proquestno: MQ65472, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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