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