> Just wondering if anyone has any comments on the Nyquist blitz in the
> current issue of Computer Music Journal. Dannenberg makes many explicit
> comparisons between Nyquist and the Music N languages. I downloaded the
> Nyquist manual and run-time--as a non-programmer, I wonder whether the
> gains from Nyquist (integrated score, "intelligent environment," table-less
> sound creation, etc.) compensate for the need to learn Lisp as well as
> Nyquist. 
> 
> Joel Stern
> 103675.1167@compuserve.com
> 
> 

I have not yet had a chance to try Nyquist, though I am very interested
in it. The question seems to me to come down to the 'tool v task' issue.
If the task is primarily to construct sounds, then Csound/MusicN will
do the job very nicely. If the goal is algorithmic composition, (including
sound manipulation, presumably), for which Csound offers no direct support 
(hence the development of score-generation tools), then Nyquist would seem 
to be the more natural choice.

Richard Dobson