In looking around today for music I could listen to that was created using Csound, I didn’t find much. This page (http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2005/07/csound-internet-concerts.html) looks promising — but the links there, which point back to items on csounds.com, are dead.

Googling for “csound compositions,” I find things like this (http://www.mail-archive.com/linart@li.org/msg00421.html), which is a nine-year-old mail message from a Paul Winkler. It has a link to a site that’s described as being “under construction.” After nine years? Not a good sign.

I also found a page of compositions by Dr. B’s students, which is the type of thing I’m looking for … but are his students the only ones composing in Csound? And while that page is on the csounds.com site, it doesn’t seem to be visible on the home page. What’s up with that?

I’m sure a lot of people are using Csound. Is it that no one is producing finished work with it? Or are the composers all tucking their work away on their own websites, where no one but their friends can find it?

I’d love to see a central repository of great music that folks who are curious about Csound could explore. Does anyone else think this would be a good thing?

–Jim Aikin