ANNOUNCE: Common Music for Guile

[Rick Taube]

Hi, Common Music (CM) is now available for Guile 1.6.0. Common Music is an 
algorithmic music composition "environment" that can be used with a variety of 
differnet sound syntheisis packages like CLM, Midi, Csound etc.  The cm archive 
is available from CCRMA at:

ftp://ftp-ccrma.stanford.edu/pub/Lisp/cm/sources/cm-2.4.0.tar.gz

I'd like to express my thanks to the many Guile developers for producing such a 
friendly and powerful Lisp environment. I was really quite amazed at how 
straight-forward it was to convert a large set of CLTL/CLOS sources over to 
Guile/GOOPS. The Goops MOP is actually better than what you find in many of the 
CLTL implementations.  

There were really only a few things I missed from CLTL2 (besides loop :) )

1) a compiler
2) a compiler
3) a compiler
4) an equivelent for cl:*load-pathname* so a file can know what its name and 
directory its in without having to deal with %load-path
5) some sort of save-application function so "images" can be saved and rebooted.

If 4 and 5 actually exist Id love to know about it.  I did read some notes 
about a possible future compiler for Guile and I hope that this become a 
reality. Music and sound syntheisis applications would benfit hugely from the 
speedup!

best,
Rick Taube
Associate Professor Composition/Theory
School of Music
University of Illinois
Urbana IL 61821
address@hidden