“Electronic Music: A Listener’s Guide”, Elliott Schwartz (1975)

This is a really good read. Schwartz is himself a long-time composer (last I heard, he celebrated his 70th birthday in 2006) and has thought deeply about the similarities and differences of tape, computer and electronic music in the perspective of other new musical movements through history.
One mystery though: my original copy of this was [...]

In search of…a quiet PC DAW

Well, this is not Csound related…at least directly.
I’ve been using the same PC for almost 5 years. I actually built it from parts. It’s proved extremely reliable and relatively powerful. (It has a 2 GHz Pentium 4 CPU, and a couple of 60 GB hard drives.) Since I do all my production “in the box” [...]

Granular synthesis opcodes in Csound

Just to give an idea of the depth, of Csound: there is not just one, but numerous opcodes in Csound that do various types of granular synthesis. Just to sort of bring them all together for comparison, a summary follows. These are all excerpted from the HTML Csound manual, and examples are given for each [...]