1. My day job is software engineer doing C++ programming and design. I
learned to program in the course of doing computer music.
2. I am a composer because I make new music that I play for other people to
hear.
3. Csound attracts me because I like using a software synthesizer as an
instrument because (a) as a composer I am almost exclusively interested in
algorithmic composition and generate many scores that I want to hear right
away even if they have unusual sounds, tunings, or difficult to play
textures and (b) I don't depend on other musicians to render my stuff and
(c) it's the most widely used software synthesizer that's adequate for
serious music and can be made to sound good and (d) it has a good depth of
publicly available instrument definitions.
5. I am very different from a "standard" composer because of my interest in
algorithmic composition and, specifically, in parametric composition or
composition by exploration of abstract spaces (see my publications, listed
on my resume at my web site http://www.pipeline.com/~gogins).


-----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
>