Very interesting list of links. This is such a good topic for popularization because of its visual and concrete aspects. (e.g. Papert and Turkle's idea of the "

Very interesting list of links. This is such a good topic for popularization because of its visual and concrete aspects. (e.g. Papert and Turkle's idea of the "revaluation of the concrete" http://www.papert.org/articles/EpistemologicalPluralism.html http://www.papert.org/articles/EpistemologicalPluralism.html ). (Drawing is always concrete, I guess, not just because it's a hand-eye coordination thing, but because of its particularity.) FWIW The most general wikipedia article and category that comes close to covering what you describe as "optical synthesis" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_sound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_sound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Graphical_sound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Graphical_sound The page emphasises the optical film soundtrack (on celluloid) as a medium for experimentation, which is something I'm fascinated by. The gender aspect is interesting too, maybe related to ideas like Papert and Turkle's. There are at least two female film artists who have done interesting critical work with the optical film track: Ute Aurand http://www.uteaurand.de/filme/paul_celan_liest.php http://www.uteaurand.de/filme/paul_celan_liest.php Lis Rhodes https://lux.org.uk/work/dresden-dynamo https://lux.org.uk/work/dresden-dynamo also, in a different way, Aura Satz https://www.thewire.co.uk/video/p=15036 https://www.thewire.co.uk/video/p=15036 whose work has, AFAIK, included providing replica tapes for the Oramics machine when it was displayed at the Science Museum. There's also of course the very famous and female Delia Derbyshire, working in a similar milieu to Oram, but without pursuing the graphical aspect. I'm sure you're aware of this, but for the record, there's a physical archive of Oram material at Goldsmiths in London: http://www.gold.ac.uk/ems/oram/ http://www.gold.ac.uk/ems/oram/ The man in charge is Mick Grierson, an old Dorkbot London hand. Your software looks excellent. Very intuitive version of what others try to do textually e.g. http://functional-art.org/2013/hudak.pdf http://functional-art.org/2013/hudak.pdf On slide 16 of that set Hudak uses the dreaded Haskell monads (well, arrows) to compose a synthesis setup (a model of a flute), but it's an excellent example of something that could be done so much less opaquely in a graphical environment like yours)