From Sign to Code. Information Technology and Musical Thought in Our Time

A highly original essay that fills a serious gap in theoretical texts on contemporary composition conquered by computer science to offer a systematic approach to current compositional and analytical practices. The book is divided into two parts. In the first, "The art of programming music", the author discusses the developments of computer technology relating to the creation and analysis of written music; in the second, "The musical object: motivations and evaluations", he begins a reflection on the theory of music and its language, where the sound object is understood as an aesthetic fact and a vector of meaning.