Contents:
 

(Click on the chapter or subchapter you wish to read - or click on next - to go through the thesis in order)
 

0.0 Sound in a nutshell: Granular Synthesis (Title page)
 

1.0  Introduction
 
2.0 The Grain
        2.1 The Contents
        2.2 The Envelope
                2.2.1 Duration
                2.2.2 Amplitude
                2.2.3 Attack time
                2.2.4 Sustain time
                2.2.5 Decay time
                2.2.6 Shape
        2.3 Synchronicity of granular synthesis
                2.3.1 Synchronous granular synthesis
                2.3.2 Asynchronous granular synthesis
        2.4 Controlling textures of grains
        2.5 Streams
        2.6 Grain Order
        2.7 A look at a multidimensional texture
        2.8 Summary of the Grain
 
3.0 A short history of granular synthesis
        3.1 Isaac Beeckman
        3.2 Changing Perceptions
        3.3 Norbert Wiener
        3.4 Jean Fourier
        3.5 Dennis Gabor
                3.5.1 Gabor's research on hearing
                3.5.2 Gabor's machines for time distortion
        3.6 Springer
        3.7 Martin Bastiaans
        3.8 Iannis Xenakis
 
4.0 Granular synthesis in Composition
        4.1 Iannis Xenakis
                4.1.1 Analysis of Analogique A-B
        4.2 Curtis Roads
        4.3 Paul Lansky
        4.4 Barry Truax
                4.4.1 Analysis of Riverrun
 
5.0 Structuring the future
        5.1 Software
        5.2 Extending the use of granular synthesis
 
6.0 Conclusion
 
7.0 References

Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Appendix 5