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Computer Music Journal WWW/FTP Archives

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This page describes the various files held in the Computer Music Journal ftp archives.

Tables of Contents and Abstracts

[Hand] The directory named "Contents" contains ASCII text files with the tables of contents and article abstracts for the last few volumes of Computer Music Journal. Eventually this will be augmented by some sort of database allowing keyword, author, or other queries against all back issues of Computer Music Journal.

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Editor's Notes

[Note] In the "EdNotes" directory you will find the Editor's Notes for recent issues of Computer Music Journal, including the Journal's annotated bibliography, diskography, and taxonomy of the field, and a note on electronic network-accessible resources that are relevant to computer music researchers.

You can select this pointer to look at the topics of Computer Music Journal Editor's Notes.

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CMJ Article Texts

[Books] This directory has compressed PostScript versions of several recent CMJ articles as an experiment. Comments are invited. One can ftp these files by selecting here.

There are also several articles from CMJ 18:4 (Winter, 1994) that give an in-depth description of the ZIPI musical parameter interchange format. Readers can ftp these files from here.

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Sound Files Archive

[Sound] This directory has a collection of sound files in a wide variety of formats (just about every one known to human-kind). There are also several short musical examples. The README file explains what's available, and this will take you there via ftp. Note that these sound files are intended to demonstrate various file formats, not to serve as a comprehensive digital sound database. See this reference list for a list of Internet sound and music archives.

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Source Code Files

[Code] This directory has full source code of a number of useful software tools and computer music benchmarks. The README file describes them in more detail. One can ftp these files by selecting here.

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Reference Lists

[Button] A general list of citations that frequently appear in Computer Music Journal has been generated and lives here. Comments and additions are invited.
Piet van Oostrum's large bibliography of electroacoustic music can be found here

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Style Guidelines and Templates for Authors

[Terminal] This directory [Authors] has the Computer Music Journal's instructions for contributing manuscripts, our guidelines for authors, our complete style sheet, spelling guide, and article template files for use with MS-Word for the Macintosh or for Windows.

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Music-related Documents

[Button] There are several related documents in the "Documents" directory, including references to other archives of computer music-related data (also included as references below), the complete MIDI specification, descriptions of sound file formats, music notation programs, a list of MIDI publications, music-related FAQ texts from the network (such as the HTML version of the Ambisonics FAQ document), etc.

There are also HTML documents related to the next two International Computer Music Conferences (ICMCs) in these files for 1995 (in Banff) and 1996 (in Hong Kong).

The README file in this directory describes these files in more detail.

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Music-related Web Sites and FTP Archives

[Ear] There is another page that has links to a wide variety of music-related information on the Web. This includes other Web-based "meta lists," the home pages of many computer music research centers and product suppliers, music-research-related resources, and network news groups.

Press here [Links] to go to this page.

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Computer Music Journal Archive Description / MIT Press / cmj@ccmrc.ucsb.edu
This page is (c) 1995 Stephen T. Pope. All Rights Reserved.
[Stephen Travis Pope, Editor: stp@ccmrc.ucsb.edu]
LastEditDate: 1996.05.18

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