{"title":"Books by Scott Wilson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780262049702","title":"The SuperCollider Book, second edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive update of the essential reference to SuperCollider, with new material on machine learning, musical notation and score making, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, and the cross-platform GUI library.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio programming languages, with wide-ranging applications across installations, real-time interaction, electroacoustic pieces, generative music, and audiovisuals. Now in a comprehensively updated new edition, The SuperCollider Book remains the essential reference for beginners and advanced users alike, offering students and professionals a user-friendly guide to the language’s design, syntax, and use. Coverage encompasses the basics as well as explorations of advanced and cutting-edge topics including microsound, sonification, spatialization, non-standard synthesis, and machine learning. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecond edition highlights:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew chapters on musical notation and score making, machine learning, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, SuperCollider on small computers, and the cross-platform GUI library\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew tutorial on installing, setting up, and running the SuperCollider IDE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTechnical documentation of implementation and information on writing your own unit generators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiverse artist statements from international musicians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccompanying code examples and extension libraries\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56231663337845,"sku":"9780262049702","price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780262049702_5ee1a063-d330-4a95-97d1-880dfd73756e.jpg?v=1786012446"},{"product_id":"9780748692859","title":"The Native Woodlands of Scotland","description":"Topical information on ecology, conservation and management for Scottish native woodlands\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis authoritative textbook provides a convenient single source of up-to-date information about the fascinating native woodland habitats of Scotland, putting these into their wider British, European and global contexts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt draws upon professional experience of scientific research, survey and management, where the author has studied many important native woodlands in Scotland and beyond. It helps readers understand and value these irreplaceable habitats, at a time when they are required to produce a growing range of services to Scotland's people, while facing threats from climate change, pests and diseases. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing a contextual introduction and history four chapters deal with individual Scottish native woodland types - pinewoods, oak\/ birch woodlands, ash woodlands and wet woodlands, along with minor types such as juniper, hazel, aspen and elm. Three chapters deal with actions for native woodland - conservation management, woodland creation and inter-linkages with plantations. A shorter chapter looks to the future, followed by a comprehensive gazetteer of native woodland sites to visit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether a student, a private woodland owner, a professional forester or interested in woodlands as a rambler or amateur naturalist, this attractive book provides the information you need in one convenient volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKey Features:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCovers all major aspects of relevance to Scottish native woodland ecology, conservation and management within a single convenient volume\u003cbr\u003ePitched at a technical level to attract those relatively new to the subject\u003cbr\u003eContains illustrated examples of the author's extensive record of woodland study within Scotland and beyond\u003cbr\u003eTimely publication when interest in native woodlands has never been stronger","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296874049909,"sku":"9780748692859","price":38.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780748692859_65ed1ac5-a4ff-4d92-a311-cd023d80189e.jpg?v=1786014719"},{"product_id":"9781780991894","title":"Melancology – Black Metal Theory and Ecology","description":"Melancology addresses the notorious musical genre black metal as a negative form of environmental writing that 'blackens' the cosmos. This book conjures a new word and concept that conjoins 'black' and 'ecology': melancology, a word in which can be heard the melancholy affect appropriate to the conjunction. Black metal resounds from the abyss and it is precisely only in relation to its sonic forces that the question of intervention in the environment arises in the articulation of melancology with ethics. That is, in deciding 'which way out' we should take, in deciding with what surpluses to dwell, with what waste, what detritus or decay in a process of unbinding with sonic forces that traverse an earth choking in wealth and death. The book thus provides a provocative and challenging contribution both to popular and intellectual debates on ecology.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303936766325,"sku":"9781780991894","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780991894_3fae922e-fdc2-4c3c-9150-2edd3a6c681a.jpg?v=1786025586"},{"product_id":"the-settled-screen","title":"The Settled Screen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Settled Screen: Landscape and National Identity in New Zealand Cinema \u003c\/i\u003eis the first title to explore the relationship between the representation of landscape and the development of both a national cinema and a national identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the early years of New Zealand’s cinema, prior to any formalized governmental support, those few feature length narrative films repeated wholesale the modes of representing the landscape and its inhabitants, while the developing documentary and travelogue industries would construct the fantasy of ‘Maoriland’ with New Zealand becoming internationally known as a green paradise, a Pacific idyll with an exotic, tamed, indigenous population. This precursor of the now contemporary ‘Brand New Zealand‘ - itself a modern, politically-corrected version of these earlier narratives - would be adjusted and amended over time, especially with the formation of the New Zealand Film Commission in the late 1970s, but never entirely discarded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a discussion on films in which landscape - and particularly the colonial or settler landscapes - have been represented in other Western cinemas, like \u003ci\u003eThe Searchers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThelma \u0026amp; Louise\u003c\/i\u003e, Wilson compares in indigenous films like \u003ci\u003eWhale Rider, To Love a Maori\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Piano\u003c\/i\u003e to exemplify the simultaneous strands of New Zealand cinema: a way of marketing the country based on the success of such spectacular films as Peter Jackson’s Tolkien epics, and the simultaneous attempts by Maori, immigrant and minority filmmakers to find a way to represent other stories in this land without recourse to the tropes of a by-now dominant national industry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57504779043189,"sku":"9781628920406","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781628920406.jpg?v=1786953696"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-scott-wilson.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}