Silence

Silence is a group of shared libraries and programs for 32-bit Microsoft
Windows, i.e. Windows 95 and Windows NT.

Silence programs and libraries are designed to work with Csound, a build
of which is included in the Silence archive, and with Midi sequencers.
Otherwise, Silence is largely self-contained. Some programs require the
Visual Basic 4.0 runtime. There is also a MathLink interface that only
makes sense if you have Mathematica version 3.0.  Silence runs fine on
any 80486, Pentium, or Pentium Pro.

This system is shareware. A license costs $60.

The purpose of the Silence is to facilitate algorithmic composition and
synthesis. The system includes WCsound, a graphical user interface for
Csound that acts as an instrument librarian, score manager, and midifile
translator. This is both a standalone program and a shared library that
can be used as a score manager plugin for other programs. Silence
includes two algorithmic composition programs that use WCsound in this
way: LinMuse and ScrnMuse. LinMuse composes music by means of
Lindenmayer systems. ScrnMuse translates Windows screen shots, such as
pictures of fractals created with Fractint, into musical scores or
soundfiles. There are instructions for using WCsound from Visual Basic.

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