Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Overview -- Chapter 1. Time Scales of Music -- Time Scales of Music -- Boundaries between Time Scales -- Zones of Intensity and Frequency -- Supra Time Scale -- Macro Time Scale -- Meso Time Scale -- Sound Object Time Scale -- Micro Time Scale -- Sampled Time Scale -- Subsample Time Scale -- Infinitesimal Time Scale -- Outside Time Music -- The Size of Sounds -- Summary -- Chapter 2. The History of Microsound from Antiquity to the Analog Era -- Waves versus Particles: Early Concepts of Microsound -- The Modern Concept of Microsound -- Microsound in the Analog Domain -- Microsound in the Instrumental Domain -- Summary -- Chapter 3. Granular Synthesis -- Theory of Granular Synthesis -- Implementation of Granular Synthesis -- Summary -- Chapter 4.Varieties of Particle Synthesis -- Glisson Synthesis -- Grainlet Synthesis -- Trainlet Synthesis -- Pulsar Synthesis -- Graphic and Sonographic Synthesis of Microsound -- Particle-Based Formant Synthesis -- Synthesis by Transient Drawing -- Particle Cloning Synthesis -- Physical Models of Particles -- Abstract Models of Particles -- Summary -- Chapter 5. Transformation of Microsound -- Synthesis and Transformation -- Micromontage -- Granulation -- The Creatovox Synthesizer: A Brief Description -- Pitch Shifting on a Micro Time Scale -- Pitch-Time Changing by Granulation -- Filtering on a Micro Time Scale -- Dynamics Processing on a Micro Time Scale -- Waveset and Wavecycle Distortions -- Convolution of Microsounds -- Spatialization of Sound Particles -- Summary -- Chapter 6. Windowed Analysis and Transformation -- Overview of Windowed Spectrum Analysis -- Theory of Fourier Analysis -- The Short-Time Fourier Transform -- The Phase Vocoder -- Sound Transformation with Windowed Spectrum Operations -- Sonographic Transformations -- The Tracking Phase Vocoder.

The Vector Oscillator Transform -- Wavelet Analysis and Resynthesis -- Gabor Analysis -- Summary -- Chapter 7. Microsound in Composition -- Summary -- Chapter 8. Aesthetics of Composing with Microsound -- Aesthetic Premises -- Aesthetic Oppositions -- Summary -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Name Index -- Subject Index.