In a past life I made my living as an audio mastering engineer. I'm intrigued, but I haven't ever looked into the Audio:: namespace on CPAN. I've never done any real audio programming either, since I started coding in earnest only after leaving the recording biz. But by now I'm an half decent C and XS hacker, and I know a bunch about digital audio theory and audio production QC. It would be fabulous to connect those two worlds, and maybe my esoteric skillset will come in handy.

I'd love to teach myself about synthesis. Is there an "Audio Synthesis with Perl" book out there or something like it? I always assumed there wasn't because audio stuff requires a lot of bit twiddling.