I'll watch that repo, i've been thinking of going down the maxforLive rabbit hole. never heard of soundPipe before.

The tl'dr to these languages/dev environments/whatever is that they attempt to give you textual control over some subset of what a DAW (ableton or FL studio or logic Pro) can do, so that you can compose/perform/synthesize on the fly. I think all of these would be hard to understnad for somebody that hasn't actually read a manual for, say, Ableton, or some hard synth or VST that has a lot of sound sources, LFO/envelope/delay/effects routing matrix.

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there's another notation/synthesis framework that was bandied about, audioKit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9903760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8574558

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also, one of those threads had a reference to music-N, which is a good (and short!) historical reference page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N