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Music technology

sound synthesis by combining many tiny grains of sound, each lasting a few milliseconds, into dense textures.

In music technology, granular synthesis refers to sound synthesis by combining many tiny grains of sound, each lasting a few milliseconds, into dense textures. This meaning comes from Roads (2001) in Microsound.[1]

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Roads, C. (2001). Microsound. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262282444

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