Behaviour, Structure and Causality in Procedural Audio1
Andy Farnell · IGI Global eBooks · 2010
This chapter expands some key concepts and problems in the emerging field of procedural audio. In addition to historical, philosophical, commercial, and technological themes, it examines why procedural audio differs from earlier “computer music” and “computer sound”. In particular, the extension of sound synthesis to the general case of ordinary, everyday objects in a virtual world, and the requirements for interactivity and real-time computation are examined.