Hi All,

WOW!  I just got back from the Sounds Electric '05 conference in
Maynooth, Ireland and what a great time!  It was such a pleasure to
see some of you again, to finally get to meet many of you, and to meet
many of you for the first time.  The concerts were great (much thanks
to all whose pieces were played and performed!), the presentations
were excellent(again my  thanks!), and all in all just a great time!

For those of you who weren't there, it was quite a treat when Dr.
Boulanger, at his keynote speech (Csound is really just everywhere!),
surprised us all with bringing in Barry Vercoe!  I unfortunately had
to leave early on Sunday before Barry's presentation as well as the
concert that evening of Dr. Boulanger's and Rajmil Fischman's music,
so can't comment on either, but can't imagine it being anything but
fantastic (the rehearsal for the concert was really quite fantastic!).

I felt like for only being a few days the weekend was just absolutely
full with all these wonderful events.  Hopefully when we can get a
conference review and papers together for the Csound Journal we can
get more detailed information out there about all that happened.

As Victor pointed out, it's Csound's 30th Anniversary next year, and I
*really* hope we can all figure out a way to put on another Csound
conference for the occasion.  ^_^

Thanks again to Victor for getting this wonderful and memorable
conference organized!

steven

p.s. - For those who were unable to make the conference, we're working
out getting papers from the presenters at the conference as well as a
conference review for the next Csound Journal, which I think we're
targetting for a mid-January release.  For those who have other
articles to contribute or would like to contribute an article, you all
still have time to work things up and submit for the next issue.