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Rhythm and Transforms
William A. Sethares

Springer, 2007

People quite naturally identify the rhythmic structure of music as they tap their feet and sway in time with the beat. Underlying such mundane motions is an act of cognition that is not easily reproduced in a computer program or automated by machine. Rhythm and Transforms asks (and answers) the question: How can we build a device that can "tap its foot" along with the music? The result is a tool for detecting and measuring the temporal aspects ...

Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale

5 reviews
William A. Sethares

Springer, 2004

A Landmark Book in the History of Musical Sounds
While experimenting with musical instruments and sounds, the author observed a new relationship between the timbre of sounds and the tunings in which sounds are played. In an effort to understand this relationship the author hypothesized a mechanism for relating spectrum to scale. He then went to the heart of the matter, figured it all out, and proved the hypothesis. All of this and much more ...

Telecommunications Breakdown: Concepts of Communication Transmitted via Software-Defined Radio

1 review
C. Richard Johnson, William A. Sethares

Prentice Hall, 2003

Great Introduction to Modem Design
This book is a great introduction to digital modem design. I put together my first crude QPSK modem just before getting this book. I read a bunch of different articles and papers in order to design my modem pieces and put them together. Most of that reading was a waste of time. I wish that I had this book back then because it covers everything you need to design a basic modem ...such as AGC, ...