A comprehensive update of the essential reference to SuperCollider, with new material on machine learning, musical notation and score making, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, and the cross-platform GUI library. SuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio programming languages, with wide-ranging applications across installations, real-time interaction, electroacoustic pieces, generative music, and audiovisuals. Now in a comprehensively updated new edition, The SuperCollider Book remains the essential reference for beginners and advanced users alike, offering students and professionals a user-friendly guide to the language’s design, syntax, and use. Coverage encompasses the basics as well as explorations of advanced and cutting-edge topics including microsound, sonification, spatialization, non-standard synthesis, and machine learning. Second edition highlights: • New chapters on musical notation and score making, machine learning, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, SuperCollider on small computers, and the cross-platform GUI library • New tutorial on installing, setting up, and running the SuperCollider IDE • Technical documentation of implementation and information on writing your own unit generators • Diverse artist statements from international musicians • Accompanying code examples and extension libraries

本書は、単なる技術書を超えた「音の詩学」の集成です。プログラムの構文という冷徹な論理の中に、無限の響きを創出する情熱を宿らせる。著者たちはこの言語を介し、読者をアルゴリズムが芸術へと昇華される瞬間に立ち会わせます。非標準合成や機械学習といった最先端の知見を網羅しながらも、その根底に流れるのは音響に対する深遠な思索と、表現への飽くなき探究心に他なりません。 特筆すべきは、世界的な作家たちの声明が織りなす多声的な魅力です。技術の深淵と芸術的感性が交錯する様は、まさに現代音楽の最前線を描く一大叙事詩のようです。コードが豊かな音楽へと変貌を遂げるとき、読者は未知の聴覚体験を構築するための哲学をも手にするでしょう。音の宇宙を再定義しようとする全ての表現者に捧げられた、至高のバイブルです。