I use csound to impress girls whom I bring over to my apartment.  After
they look at a few screens of opcodes they will (hopefully) become
confused and disoriented...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pete moss 
> To: csound 
> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 12:14 PM
> Subject: csound ethnomusicology
> 
> >sorry all, this is quite a bit off topic.
> >
> >i am currently enrolled in an ethnomusicology course.  each of us are
> >working on projects dealing with some branch of ethnomusicology.  for
> >mine, i have chosen to examine the csound community as a subset of the
> >electroacoustic community in general.  what i am asking is if some of
> >you could send me personal anecdotes about how you work with csound, why
> >you chose csound, and what you do in general.
> >
> >more specific questions are:
> >1.  what is your 'day job'?
> >2.  would you call yourself a composer and why?
> >3.  what attracts you to csound?
> >4.  if you dont think of yourself as a composer, what do you do with
> >csound?
> >5.  do you view yourself as different from a 'standard'
> >(non-electroacoustic) composer and why?  what do you do that is
> >nonstandard (or standard for that matter)?
> >
> >please send as much as you can and i will ask further questions from
> >there.  also, please reply to me personally so as to not clog the list
> >with this stuff.  also also, does anyone know of any articles or books
> >dealing with this or a similar topic?  also also also, didnt someone on
> >the list in the past few months collect a list of recorded compositons
> >using csound.  if so, may i see it?
> >
> >thanks,
> >pete