real-time MIDI scripting?

[Larry Troxler <lt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi. Is there any scripting language out there that can read and write 
Alsa MIDI? I want to do things like remapping, intelligent, dynamic, 
keyboard splitting, assigning certain notes to close-open applications, 
sending alternate notes to different MIDI channels, and things like that.

pd of course is a possibility, but at the moment I'm having problems 
getting pd-extended to run in 64studio, and regardless, I'd like to 
explore the text-language route.

Larry