This was about algorithmic composition -- at least, that's how I interpreted 
the original question.

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "thorne" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:04 PM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Driving Csound from an external programming language


Michael Gogins  writes:

> At a sheer guess, I would say that probably blue (Java) and Common
> Music (Lisp) have the most users. I would also guess that there are
> considerably more people doing algorithmic composition in
> SuperCollider or Max/MSP.

May i ask for clarification about this thread in general?  Is the
discussion about using other languages as score-generating systems, or
as orchestra-generating systems?  Since csound's score language is both
generic and pretty simple, it seems like a no-brainer to use macros or
whatever to aid in building scores, but on the right-tool-for-the-job
principle, it seems like the best way to write csound orchestras would
be in... csound... no?  Wouldn't layering another syntax on top of
csound either lose information, or just change syntax around without
gaining or losing?  I don't know.  I'm asking here.  I have been
interested in this question myself because like many (a few?) others, i
tend to think it would be nice to write csound code, but in lisp syntax.
But ultimately, is there anything to be gained by something like this?

-- 
Theron Ttlåx


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