Theory and Practice with Max 8 - Volume 1, Electronic Music and Sound Design - Grand Format

Alessandro Cipriani co-authored "Virtual Sound", a textbook on Csound programming. His compositions have been performed at major festivals and electronic music venues, and released on CDs and DVDs issued by Computer Music Journal, International Computer Music Conference as well as others. He has written music for the Peking Opera Theater, as well as for films and documentaries in which ambient sound, dialog, and music all fuse together, interchangeably.
He is a tenured professor in electronic music at the Conservatory of Frosinone, a founding member of the Edison Studio in Rome, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Organised Sound (published by Cambridge Music Press). He has given seminars at many European and American universities, including the University of California - Santa Barbara, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and Accademia di S.
Cecilia in Rome. Maurizio Giri is a professor of composition as well as a teacher of Max programming techniques at the conservatories of Latina and Frosinone. He is an instrumental and electroacoustic composer of music, specializing in digital sound processing, improvisation and computer-assisted composition. He has written computer applications for algorithmic composition and live performance, and has published numerous tutorials on Max.
He founded Amazing Noises, a software house that develops music applications and plug-ins for mobile devices and computers. He was artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and at GRAME in Lyon. He collaborated with members of the Nicod Institute, a research center of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, on a project about the philosophy of sound.