11 Jan
2026
11 Jan
'26
6:49 p.m.
To follow-on to Fernando's response, I originally used
Leland Smith's SCORE program (the old SCORE, not the
manuscript program originally named MS, but renamed
to Score later), with Mus10 to turn the note list
into sound. Then the Samson box came along and
I used Pla for awhile with Sambox (the program that
turned the note list into a synthesizer command stream).
Later I got into the habit of writing a different
program for each piece, or even writing the note
lists by hand (Phrygians and various sound-file
based pieces). CLM and Snd came still later, but
by then I had somehow become a programmer which
was a much easier life than composition. I did
port most the old pieces to that environment. A
major unanticipated problem was hearing loss in old
age which makes it nearly impossible to check that
I'm hearing what others hear.