DISSCO: A Unified Approach to Sound Synthesis and Composition (original) (raw)

DISSCO (Digital Instrument for Sound Synthesis and Com-position) represents a unified and comprehensive approach to sound synthesis and composition—unified in the sense that its components share a common formal approach and use similar tools, comprehensive in the sense that they de-liver a final product (a musical "event") that does not re-quire further processing. DISSCO consists of two parts: LASS, a C++ Library for Additive Sound Synthesis, and CMOD, a C++ Compo-sition Module. Release 1.0 of LASS is available as open-source software; CMOD is still under development. This article discusses some underlying ideas of music compo-sition and sound synthesis and describes implementation details in the context of LASS and CMOD.