Victor Lazzarini completed his doctorate at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he received the Heyman scholarship for research progress and the Hallward composition prize for a large-scale work, Magnificat. His interests include musical signal processing and sound synthesis; computer music languages; electroacoustic and instrumental composition. He joined the Music Department at Maynooth University in 1998 and was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 2014 to 2019.
"""Victor Lazzarini has condensed thirty years of experience of into a dazzlingly lucid resource that will inform and delight all those studying and making spectral music with computers. The book covers both the fundamental and creative aspects of spectral music design, leading through detailed accounts of computer synthesis and digital signal processing to illuminating discussions of how composers and musicians have developed their approaches. This is an indispensable book that provides an excellent technical and artistic foundation for any digital musician."" -- Andrew Hugill, School of Informatics, University of Leicester ""Spectral Music Design: A Computational Approach will prove a vast and deep source of insight, inspiration, enlightenment, and understanding for the innovative composer, producer, sound designer, and developer. Drawing on a lifetime of experience in the classroom in the studio, on the stage, and in the lab, the 'Leonardo da Vinci' of DSP - Victor Lazzarini - illustrates, demonstrates, explains and shares his masterpieces of code and music in this incredibly inspiring book. For years to come, Spectral Music Design will be a go-to resource for teachers and students of computer music, acoustics, digital signal processing, and computer science, as well as cutting-edge electronic music producers, innovative sound designers, and audio app developers."" -- Dr. Richard Boulanger, Professor of Electronic Production and Design - Berklee College of Music"