The Csound Book

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…ther 'miniAudicle' if you just want to try the water. It's fun ... you'll have sound in a couple minutes! http://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/mini/ For a book on theory try "Computer Music" by Dodge & Jerse. The Curtis Roads books are v.good too. I'd just get started improvising with whatever! and then as you get time, check out the (many!) software options and see what fits your mental/musical personality. It's always a battle not to get over-lost in the tech side at first because that can cramp your creativity ... and even your motivation. Finally, for a DEEP course in EM try The CSound Book. CSound will let you make ~any sound you can conceive ... but it's a heavy lift. (More for studio than live.)

…_... He used to send a pdf of the draft version if you asked him, but since the printed book is due soon (by MIT press) I don't know if this is still true. There's also 'The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music' by Miller Puckette (the author of Pure Data): http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques.htm The examples are, obviously, in Pure Data. But it is an excellent book and all the concepts can be applied to any synthesis language/tool. For Csound there's 'The Csound Book' by Richard Boulanger (MIT Press): http://csounds.com/shop/csound-book This is also excellent. Disclaimer: the author is a friend.