Hi all,

I've been lurking since 1996, but rarely write - so, first, THANK YOU to you
devs for csound5 - I'm a software dev myself during the day and understand
the investment you are making.  Thanks so much!

My question:
In an effort to reinvigorate my Python skills, I'm going to port my favorite
bits of Common Music 1.x to Python, particularly the ItemStream concept and
a few other things I frequently use.  As many of you know, it's a good fit
within Steven Yi's excellent program blue, and the last drop of csound5
included a python wrapper for the Csound API.  I'm excited as well about the
GUI-building possibilities between this wrapper and the Python ugens
Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu contributed.  But I digress...

Looking for starting points within the csound world, I've found the
following: athenaCl, Steven's Orchestra Library in the last drop of blue,
and some in csoundVST.   I'm playing catchup to a certain degree. There are
a few examples in the last release of csoundVST which I saw, and I
understand there is more in Silence, but it appears to no longer be hosted
at csounds.com.  Is it still available anywhere? Someone is using the name
at sourceforge :(  I noticed that Michael Gogin's site is down due to it's
popularity, so perhaps it's there waiting to be downloaded.

So, csound community, do you know of any other
algorithmic-composition-related python resources which I might find useful
in this endeavor?  I'm wondering if someone hasn't already invented this
wheel.  I'd much rather get back to building instruments and making music
;)  Seriously, I'd rather build on something others are using than reinvent
the wheel.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Seattle,
Ben McAllister
http://www.listenfaster.com