The main Siren Web site is at http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren.
This outline is on-line at http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/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.cincomsmalltalk.com/tutorials/version7/tutorial1/home.htm
http://www.smalltalk.org
http://www.squeak.org
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~wolfgang/cosc205/smalltalk1.html
http://daitanmarks.sourceforge.net/or/squeak/squeak_tutorial.html
http://www.sra.co.jp/people/aoki/htmls/FreeDocumentsForSmalltalk.html
The Squeak CD-ROM (http://www.squeak.org/Download/SqueakCD) has a whole collection of good Smalltalk tutorials.
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
Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan
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 CMRS@Mozarteum/Salzburg (1980-85), 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@UC Berkeley (1993-95), CREATE@UC Santa Barbara (1996-2006), and the Technical University of Berlin (2000).