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When you are using the MediaTools application, you are actually using a programming language called Squeak, developed initially and primarily by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, John Maloney, and Scott Wallace [19]. Squeak is now opensource^[1], and is an excellent crossplatform multimedia tool. There is a book Squeak: ObjectOriented Design with Multimedia Applications that introduces Squeak, including its sound capabilities [14], and another book on Squeak, Open Personal Computing for Multimedia [16] that includes a chapter on Siren, a variation of Squeak by Stephen Pope especially designed for computer music exploration and composition.

^[1] http://www.squeak.org