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by jancsika 626 days ago
You: escape the oppressive technical limitations of scoring a piece for an orchestra through novel use of technology.

Csound: To make a sine tone, we'll describe the oscillator in a textfile as if it were a musical instrument. You can think of this textfile as a blueprint for a kind of digital orchestra. Later we'll specify how to "play" this orchestra using another text file, called the score.