Using Pd as a score language

The original idea in developing Pd [?] was to make a real-time computer music performance environment like Max, but somehow to include also a facility for making computer music scores with user-specifiable graphical representations. This idea has important precedents in Animal [?] and SSSP [?]. An even earlier class of precedents lies in the rich variety of paper scores for electronic music before it became practical to offer a computer-based score editor. In this context, scores by Stockhausen (Kontakte, Studie II) and Yuasa (Toward the Midnight Sun) come most prominently to mind, but also Xenakis’s Mycenae-α, which, although it was realized using a computer, was scored on paper and only afterward laboriously transcribed into the computer.