[Fluxus] usefulness for audio?

[plutek infinity]

greetings!

for a number of years, i've been using puredata to code a live 
performance rig which takes input from a clarinet, and analyzes and 
transforms it various ways to yield a kind of extended instrument for 
improvisational performance. lately, i've become disenchanted with 
puredata, and want to use something more text-based as well as more 
easily modifiable and expressive on-the-fly...

i've looked at ChucK, SuperCollider, and fluxus+fluxa.

in terms of the general aesthetic of the environment, and the "feel" of 
working in each, i'd have to rate them this way:

1. fluxus+fluxa
2. ChucK
3. SuperCollider

i'm using a lot of MIDI input for control, and need a deep capability 
for audio analysis and transformation -- this is fundamentally about 
sound, with future possibilities for graphics as a distant possible 
dream. also, i need to start with a significantly developed machine 
ready to go, but with a live-coding approach available during 
performance, for modifications.

so, i'm interested in thoughts any of you might have about the 
possibility of fluxus+fluxa really being a viable environment for what 
i'm doing; my sense is that it's a real stretch to think that it's truly 
appropriate -- which is truly a shame, because it is just simply such a 
beautiful and intuitive thing!  :(

on the other hand, i'm extremely comfortable already with the 
text-file-editing paradigm implied in ChucK -- i already do "way too 
many" things in emacs, and that environment is just second nature to me. 
the C-based syntax, and lack of attention to visual aesthetic is just 
simply not as appealing as the lisp-based beauty of fluxus.

SuperCollider is a complete "wildcard", which i really know nothing 
about, and just seems like a Big Black Box, although what i've read and 
watched seems to indicate it would work.

so, if you would, please give me some collective wisdom about 
appropriateness, functionality, reliability, etc., etc....

thanks so much in advance... cheers!
.pltk.