The Big MAT Book: Courseware for Audio & Multimedia Engineering 

Overview 
	Volume 1: Multimedia Engineering 
	Volume 2: Audio Software 
	Volume 3: Audio Hardware 

Table of Contents
 
Volume 1: Multimedia Engineering 
	1. Survey of Media Engineering & Technology
	2. Computing with Media Data 
	3. Media Signal Processing
	4. Sensors and Interfaces for Media Art  

Volume 2: Audio Software 
	5. Sound IO and Streaming APIs 
	6. The Spectral Domain: Filter and the FFT 
	7. Spatial/Surround Sound and Reverb 
	8. Sound Synthesis Techniques 
	9. Synthesis Control and Streaming!
	10. Audio Analysis and Music Information Retrieval!

Volume 3: Audio Hardware 
	11.  Audiophile Engineering 
	12.  Recording Studio Design and Engineering

Introduction to the Series Courseware for Audio & Multimedia Engineering

Multimedia engineering is a broad and complex topic. It is also one of the fastest-growing and most valuable fields of research and development within electronic technology. The book before you is an anthology of curriculum materials developed over the space of 12 years at the University of California, Santa Barbara for students in UCSBs Graduate Program in Media Arts and Technology. 

The BigMATBook consists of the presentation slides for twelve ten-week courses, amounting to over 600 hours of presentation time. For each of the twelve courses, the presentation slides are accompanied by the tables of contents of the course readers, and an overview of the example code archives. These resources are available for down-load from the HeavenEverywhere web site (see http://HeavenEverywhere.com/TheBigMATBook).

The multimedia engineering courses included here cover theory and practice, hardware and software, visual and audio media, and arts as well as entertainment applications. Some of the courses (the first three chapters) were required of all MAT graduate students, and thus must target less-technical and also non-audio-centric students. The bulk of this material, though, consists of elective courses that have somewhat higher-level prerequisites and assume basic knowledge of acoustics and some (minimal) programming experience in mainstream programming languages.

The BigMATBook courses borrow liberally from R&D publications by my friends and colleagues, especially Roger Dannenberg, Julius O. Smith, D. Gareth Loy, F. R. Moore, Perry Cook, Adrian Freed, George Tzanetakis, Ross Bencina and Dan Overholt. I want also to express my deepest thanks to my MAT and Music Dept. colleagues JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Curtis Roads, Clarence Barlow, Matthew Wright, and Matthew Turk, and to the many students who helped these courses evolve, either as course participants or teaching assistants.

	Stephen Travis Pope (stephen@HeavenEverywhere.com)
	Santa Barbara, California -- September, 2009 (updated January, 2014)
