Hello Michael, hello all Csounders,

as a composer and a computer music professor since 25 years, I can tell
there's no unique answer.
The fact is, Csound is mainly a tool, not a compositional software
(provided that such a thing can exist!).
I am conviced there's no main difference between thinking a piece for
instruments and a piece for electroacoustics.
I mean, the first idea of a new piece always begins in the brain (or
heart, the one you like better), and only when it takes a "physical"
form I can see a difference. To me, music is "what", media are "how".
Clearly, the "how" can modify the "what", but the original idea is left
unchanged, even if it can take different forms.
Coming to Csound, as I like the maximum of control over the score, I
make little use of the "automatic generation" features of the language.
I prefer to write my own score-generation program(s) (usually in Visual
Basic).
The most important thing, to me, is that with a set of tools like Csound
and related software (soundfiles editor, general purpose programming
languages and so on) we can really have a close contact with the sound.


Michael Rhoades wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
>      We have a great programming language (getting better all the time)
> which gives nearly unlimited technical ability in the composition of music.
> We have the machines capable of rendering these programs to sound files. The
> question then becomes, what to compose. What are your compositional
> attitudes, approaches or techniques? What direction has inspiration sent
> you?
> What are your plans for the future? With this wonderful tool, many have
> simply expanded on previous styles or approaches. One has to wonder what
> truly new direction we will take. It's up to us to decide, we are presently
> the future of music.
>     I am curious to see your comments.
> 
> Michael Rhoades

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