Large 8vo. 144pp. With numerous in-text illustrations. Original publisher's printed pictorial wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked.

The first edition of an early reference work on electronic music, formed of a collection of articles about computer-music that appeared in the monthly microcomputer periodical BYTE Magazine (1975-1998) during the golden age of microcomputers (1977-78), alongside some added essays. The volume includes articles about the construction of simple computer-based hardware to generate music, software to control said music-generating computers, and unusual audio projects involving computers such as an interface to run a pneumatic piano.