[davegurnell]

I started composing music on Scream Tracker for MS-DOS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Tracker). The layout there maintains a pretty good balance between being readable and machine executable. I'd like to try writing a tracker-style DSL for Compose to make the music easier to read. I've seen some really awesome interactive fader controls in Emacs (can't remember the name)---there could be some fun to be had doing similar things there too.