Hello, Csound world!
happy to join the community.
I am Riccardo Bianchini, aged 51, Professor of Electronic Music at
Conservatorio "S.Cecilia" in Rome, Italy.
I am teaching Csound since 8 years in my course (a 4-year course aimed to
advanced composition students or graduated, aged 20-30).
Unfortunalely the director does not pay a great attention to computer music,
so it's hard to obtain new equipment.
At the moment we work with a PC 486 DX-33 and a Sound Blaster 16 ASP; a
Pentium 200 with a TripleDAT is arriving soon (?).
Meanwhile we are doing a lot of job at home.

I developed software tools for Csound, mainly a "command console" called
WCShell (= Windows Csound SHELL). I am fixing last minute bugs, and after
that it will be on the Web (I'll let you know where).
It is used in many italian conservatories, at University Music School of
Montevideo (Uruguay) and at LIPM in Buenos Aires (Argentina). 

WCSHELL: it is developed in Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32 bit (so it comes
with *a lot* of system files, thank you, Bill Gates!), and includes a main
window with 3 list/dir/drive boxes (orc, sco, wav), editors for orchestras
and scores (including utilities such as drawing a function with GEN07 etc.),
a MMControl to play WAV files, and many utilities, such as:

SCOREX: converts a score in a spreadsheet, and allows block modifications
(add, multiply, fill, linear interpolation, exp interpolation, oppc/opd/cps
conversions, random add & multiply, block add & multiply etc.); there is
also a "logical editor", Cubase-style.

MASK: to generate scores by means of tendency masks (pitch & duration).

GRAPHSCO: converts a bitmap image in a score.

GRAFICA: to view a score in Stockhausen's Studie II style.

SCOTOMID: converts a score in Standard Midi File (pretty to make music
scores with Finale!).

WAVFFT: spectrum analyzer ("mountains" & spectrograms).


I am a composer, and my pieces are printed & recorded by publishers EDIPAN
and BMG-Ariola. Among them:

La principessa senza tempo (The Timeless Princess), for flute and tape
[1985-14:00]

Preuss, for violin, cello and tape [1989 - 14:26]

Klimt, for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano and tape [1991
- 10:50]

Macchu Picchu, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 trumpets, horn,
trombone and tape [1993 - 16:00]

Howl, on text by A.Ginsberg, for female voice and tape [1995 - 6:20]

I dannati della terra (The damned of earth), for actor, soprano, flute,
percussion, tape and images [1996 - 30:00]


Well, it's all for now. 

Riccardo Bianchini
via Ternana 108
02034 MONTOPOLI S. (RI)
ITALY