A collection of most-read and most-cited articles from our journals’ archives that highlight the role of music in our lives and in our future
First celebrated on June 21, 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, World Music Day has been observed on the same day ever since in more than 120 countries. In honor of the melodies and musicians that continually move and inspire us, we have gathered a collection of most-read and most-cited articles from our journals’ archives that highlight the role of music in our lives and in our future. These pieces hit just the right note with us, and we hope you’ll enjoy them too.
The following articles are freely available through July 15, 2020.
- “Virtual Reality Musical Instruments: State of the Art, Design Principles, and Future Directions” by Stefania Serafin et al. from Computer Music Journal (40:3) Fall 2016
- “Perspectives on the Contribution of Timbre to Musical Structure” by Stephen McAdams from Computer Music Journal (23:3) Fall 1999
- “The Viability of the Web Browser as a Computer Music Platform” by Lonce Wyse and Srikumar Subramanian from Computer Music Journal (37:4) Winter 2013
- “Toward Robotic Musicianship” by Gil Weinberg and Scott Driscoll from Computer Music Journal (30:4) Winter 2006
- “Foundations of a Visual Music” by Brian Evans from Computer Music Journal (29:4) Winter 2005
- “Dual Reflections: A Conversation with Kaija Saariaho and Jean-Baptiste Barrière on Music, Art, and Technology” by Edmund Campion from Computer Music Journal (41:3) Fall 2017
- “Designing Constraints: Composing and Performing with Digital Musical Systems” by Thor Magnusson from Computer Music Journal (34:4) Winter 2010
- “Composing with Biomemristors: Is Biocomputing the New Technology of Computer Music?” by Eduardo Reck Miranda et al. from Computer Music Journal (42:3) Fall 2018
- “Can Musical Machines Be Expressive? Views from the Enlightenment and Today” by Steven Kemper and Rebecca Cypess from Leonardo (52:5) October 2019
- “Music and Life” by Joel Chadabe from Leonardo (35:5) October 2002
- “The Musical Experience through the Lens of Embodiment” by Greg Corness from Leonardo Music Journal (18) December 2008
- “On Improvised Music, Computational Creativity and Human-Becoming” by Arto Artinian and Adam James Wilson from Leonardo Music Journal (27) December 2017
- “Too Many Notes: Computers, Complexity and Culture in Voyager” by George E. Lewis from Leonardo Music Journal (10) December 2000
- “Algorithms as Scores: Coding Live Music” by Thor Magnusson from Leonardo Music Journal (21) December 2011
- “From Stethoscopes to Headphones: An Acoustic Spatialization of Subjectivity” by Charles Stankievech from Leonardo Music Journal (17) December 2007
- “Transmediating a Japanese Garden through Spatial Sound Design” by Michael Fowler from Leonardo Music Journal (21) December 2011
- “Average Is the New Loudest” by Johannes Mulder from Leonardo Music Journal (26) December 2016
- “Sound Explorations: Windows into the Physicality of Sound” by Annea Lockwood from Leonardo Music Journal (19) December 2009
- “The Springboard: The Joy of Piezo Disk Pickups for Amplified Coil Springs” by Eric Leonardson from Leonardo Music Journal (17) December 2007
- “Sounds, Images, Politics and Place” by Richard Lerman from Leonardo Music Journal (25) December 2015
- “The Architectonics of Music” by Steven Holl from PAJ: A Journal of Performance Art (39:2) May 2017
- “Decoding the Reality Studio” by Mallory Catlett, G Lucas Crane and Alex Wermer-Colan from PAJ: A Journal of Performance Art (42:2) May 2020
- “Musical Personae” by Philip Auslander from TDR/The Drama Review (50:1) Spring 2006
- “Brown Punk: Kalup Linzy’s Musical Anticipations” by Tavia Nyong’o from TDR/The Drama Review (54:3) Fall 2010