Subject: NN & Music Book From: Niall Griffith <niall.griffith(at)UL.IE> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:04:37 +0100Book Announcement.... MUSICAL NETWORKS: PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE edited by Niall Griffith and Peter M. Todd MUSICAL NETWORKS, a new book on connectionist models of music cognition, composition, and performance, has been published by MIT Press. This book presents the latest research on neural network applications in the domains of musical and creative behavior by leaders in the field including Gjerdingen, Grossberg, Large, Mozer and many others. For a further description, and links to the complete table of contents and preface, please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262071819 MUSICAL NETWORKS can be found in bookstores that carry MIT Press publications, or can be purchased directly from MIT Press through the above website or by calling their toll-free order number, 1-800-356-0343 (or in the UK, (0171)306-0603), and specifying ISBN 0-262-07181-9. The price is $37.50 (hardcover, 385 pages). In conjunction with our book, we have also created an extensive bibliography of connectionist publications on music, which you can access (in html, Word, bibtex, and plain text) at http://www.csis.ul.ie/staff/NiallGriffith/mnpdpp_bib0.htm We intend to keep this an up-to-date list, so if you have published anything in this area (or know of other work) that we have not yet included, please email full details to niall.griffith(at)ul.ie and it will be added. Niall Griffith and Peter Todd ****************************************************************************