The main Siren Web site is at http://www.create.ucsb.edu/Siren.
This outline is on-line at http://www.create.ucsb.edu/Siren/7.2/Doc.
To join the mailing list, see http://www.create.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/siren.

To read more about computer music, get a copy of Curtis Roads' "Computer Music Tutorial" (MIT Press).

To learn more about Smalltalk, see the several excellent on-line Smallatlk tutorials (just ask Google) e.g.,
   http://www.smalltalk.org/
   http://www.fja-odateam.com/links/smalltalk/s_tutori.html
   http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~wolfgang/cosc205/smalltalk1.html
   http://daitanmarks.sourceforge.net/or/squeak/squeak_tutorial.html
   http://www.cincom.com/scripts/smalltalk.dll/tutorial/version7/tutorial1/home.htm
   http://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cop4331/hughes/Summer1998/Tutorials/Smalltalk/index.html
   http://www.phaidros.com/DIGITALIS

Acknowledgments

Siren incorporates the work of many people who have contributed ideas and/or code; it would be most unfair not to acknowledge them here. They include:
   Paul Alderman
   Alberto de Campo
   Roger Dannenberg
   Lounette Dyer
   Adrian Freed
   Guy Garnett
   Kurt Hebel
   Frode Holm
   Helge Horch
   Dan Ingalls
   Craig Latta
   David Leibs
   Mark Lentczner
   Hitoshi Katta
   Alex Kouznetsov
   John Maloney
   James McCartney
   Hans-Martin Mosner
   Luciano Notarfrancesco
   Danny Oppenheim
   Nicola Orio
   Francois Pachet
   Andreas Raab
   Curtis Roads
   Pierre Roy
   Carla Scaletti
   Bill Schottstaedt
   John Tangney
   Bill Walker

I must also here acknowledge the generous support of my employers and the academic institutions where this software (and its predecessors) was developed, including PCS/Cadmus GmbH in Munich (1983-6), Xerox PARC (1986-89), ParcPlace Systems, Inc. (1988-94), CCRMA@Stanford (1986-92), The STEIM Foundation in Amsterdam (1990-91), The Swedish Institute for Computer Science (1992-93), CMNAT@UCBerkeley (1993-95), CREATE@UCSantaBarbara (1996-present), and the Technical University of Berlin (2000).