Software
free / inexpensive
- Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ (Mac or Windows)
- Reaper – multitrack editor – http://www.reaper.fm (Mac or Windows)
- Ardour – multitrack editor – http://ardour.org/ (Mac or Windows)
- Max/MSP Runtime (free version) http://cycling74.com/downloads/ (Mac or Windows)
- Soundhack – http://music.ucsd.edu/~tre/soft//SH896.zip (Mac only)
- Spear – http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/downloads/ (Mac only)
commercial programs
- ProTools
- Ableton Live
- Cubase
- Logic Pro
audio programming environments
- pure data (PD)
- max/msp jitter
- NI Reactor
- Supercollider
- RTcmix
- ChucK
Audio Tools / Misc.
- Rogue Amoeba
- Tom Erbe
Books
- Holmes, Thom. Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture. Fourth Edition. Routledge Press. (recommended)
- Demers, Joanna. Listening Through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music. New York: Oxford UP, 2010. Print.
- Rodgers, Tara. Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound. Durham: Duke UP, 2010. Print.
- Introduction to Computer Music, Hass, Jeffrey. Online: http://www.indiana.edu/~emusic/etext/toc.shtml
- Cox, Christoph, and Daniel Warner. Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. New York: Continuum, 2004. Print.