This paper describes a “software archaeology” project in which a new interpreter was created for the Score11 music representation, a popular 1980s music input language that was frequently used with the Music11 non-real-time software sound synthesis package on DECC PDP-11 computers. The new version runs within the Smalltalk-based Siren system, a library of software classes for music representation, algorithmic composition and live interactive performance. The project background is given, and the port of Score11 to the Siren environment is described, demonstrated and evaluated.

Stephen Travis Pope grew up just outside New York City, and studied C.S. at Cornell University, and music at the Vienna Music Academy and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He has realized his musical works in the North America (Toronto, Stanford, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, Havana) and Europe (Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin) while holding research positions at various universities and R&D institutions in these same cities.

His music is available from Centaur Records, Perspectives of New Music, Touch Music, SBC Records and Absinthe Records. In 2007, The Electronic Music Foundation in New York released a triple-disc retrospective of his works called “Ritual and Memory”; his latest release is the multi-award-winning feature-length visual/music film “Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder” (with videos by R Lane Clark, Lance Putnam and others).

Stephen also has over 100 technical publications on music theory and composition, computer music, software engineering, programming languages, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. He lives in Ojai, California.