The four articles of this issue explore, in retrograde order, the topics announced on this issue's front cover: “Spatialization, Sonification, Transcription, and Visual Programming.” We begin with Vesa Norilo and Luis Alejandro Olarte's article on visual programming. In Computer Music Journal 39:4 (Winter 2015), Norilo presented Kronos, his programming language for digital signal processing. In that article, he briefly mentioned the potential for future research into educational benefits of a visual interface to the language. In the current issue, Olarte and Norilo present the visual interface, called Veneer. Their article compares the Kronos-plus-Veneer environment to some other compiled or visual languages for music signal processing. It goes on to describe Veneer's main features and then assesses its usefulness in education by means of a student survey.
Moving on to the domain of music information retrieval (MIR), we present the work of Durán and de la Cuadra on automatic transcription of...