4'33" Fractals - Csound materials


About

Csound - a sound and music computing system (program, libraries, language)

  • Oldest still active languge (since 1986)
  • Backwards compatible - old Csound scores from 80-ies still work
  • Cross platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, iOs, Web)
  • Free, open source
  • Light, powerful, stable
  • Complicated, steep learning curve


    • Download/install

    WEB IDE

    CsoundQt (main frontend)

    MacOS:
    - Csound https://github.com/csound/csound/releases/download/6.18.1/Csound-MacOS-universal-6.18.1.dmg
    - CsoundQt: https://github.com/CsoundQt/CsoundQt/releases/download/v1.1.1/CsoundQt-1.1.1-MacOS_x64.dmg

    Windows:
    https://github.com/CsoundQt/CsoundQt/releases/download/v1.1.1/CsoundQt-1.1.1+Csound-6.18.0-Win64.zip (all included)
    - unzip the package and run CsoundQt-something.exe

    Linux:
    https://github.com/CsoundQt/CsoundQt/releases/download/v1.1.1/CsoundQt-1.1.1+Csound-6.18.0-x86_64.AppImage (all included)
    - download the file, give permission to “executable” and just click on the file to start it.

    Learning, getting started

    FLOSS Manual - Getting Started

    Manual

    Various documentation


    Workshop links

    Web IDE getting started: https://ide.csound.com/editor/Cue5qNQQIA88dMRJFr1a

    Workshop instruments in CsoundQt: instruments.csd

    Csound on WEB - demo

    4'33" Web instruments