How a University Launched the Electronic Music Revolution

Article about CCRMA and Andrew Nelson's book featured recently on MetroNews:

Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution

It wasn't that long ago when all music was made by acoustic instruments—vibrating strings, oscillating reeds and resonating wood. Our musical devices were powered by wind, friction and other forces. But today, whether you're scanning the radio or browsing a web-based streaming service, chances are high that at least a portion of the music you're encountering was produced through some form of synthesis. The wobbling bass of that dubstep drop, the bowel-rattling kick and the snapping snare on that hip-hop beat, the impossibly rapid, arpeggiated guitar lick—all of them produced by a synthesizer. Even the resonant tone of that piano could as easily come from a Mac as from a Steinway.
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