Rob Wannamaker
Robert Wannamaker is a composer, improviser, music theorist, mathematician, and educator. His current research interests in music include the application of psychoacoustics to musical analysis, mathematical models of pitch organization, tuning theory, and the history and analysis of contemporary music. His early research focused on the mathematical theory and engineering implementation of dithered quantization techniques and helped to make them widespread in professional digital audio applications.
Address: Santa Clarita, California, United States
Address: Santa Clarita, California, United States
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Volume 1, Contexts and Paradigms, chronologically surveys Tenney's creative development and output. Wannamaker begins each section with biographical, aesthetic, and technical context that focuses on a distinct period in Tenney's career. From there, he analyzes a small number of pieces that illuminate the concerns, characteristics, and techniques that emerged in Tenney's music during that time. Wannamaker supplements the text with musical examples, graphs, and diagrams while also drawing on unpublished material and newly available primary sources to flesh out each work and the ideas that shaped it.
A landmark in experimental music scholarship, The Music of James Tenney is a first-of-its-kind consideration of the music titan and his work.
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Papers by Rob Wannamaker
that many static systems displaying stochastic resonance are forms of dithered quantizers, and that the existence or absence of stochastic resonance in such systems can be predicted from the effects of ‘‘dither averaging’’ upon their transfer characteristics. Also, results are introduced regarding stochastic resonance in certain nonlinear systems with memory (e.g., hysteretic systems).
are investigated. In addition, the importance of digital-to-analog-converter linearity is discussed with regard to realizing the potential audible benefits of noise shaping.
Volume 1, Contexts and Paradigms, chronologically surveys Tenney's creative development and output. Wannamaker begins each section with biographical, aesthetic, and technical context that focuses on a distinct period in Tenney's career. From there, he analyzes a small number of pieces that illuminate the concerns, characteristics, and techniques that emerged in Tenney's music during that time. Wannamaker supplements the text with musical examples, graphs, and diagrams while also drawing on unpublished material and newly available primary sources to flesh out each work and the ideas that shaped it.
A landmark in experimental music scholarship, The Music of James Tenney is a first-of-its-kind consideration of the music titan and his work.
(Click the cover image to read the Kindle sample.)
Click the PDF cover image to view the Kindle sample.
that many static systems displaying stochastic resonance are forms of dithered quantizers, and that the existence or absence of stochastic resonance in such systems can be predicted from the effects of ‘‘dither averaging’’ upon their transfer characteristics. Also, results are introduced regarding stochastic resonance in certain nonlinear systems with memory (e.g., hysteretic systems).
are investigated. In addition, the importance of digital-to-analog-converter linearity is discussed with regard to realizing the potential audible benefits of noise shaping.