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Re: microsound Digest 17 May 2002 19:45:01 -0000 Issue 553



>   I'd like to see the score(!)

Me too!  I'm still working on it.  My interest in scores began when I started researching alternative notation for a piece I wrote for ensemble a few years ago.   For that piece I used a simple table in Microsoft Word as a bar graph plotting each musician's activity across a timeline. It was inspired by the left-to-right model of sequencing software with which I was familiar.  (I will hopefully be able to do some research on this left-to-right/up-and-down visual framework and its influence on the music created by it.)


> Is it possible to get the idea from the way
> the files appear in the sequencing app. you were using?

Yes, the sequencing window has had an enormous influence on the way I structure music.  And now I'm exploring how I can formalize the process.  And then seek alternatives with which to make different types of compositions.


> I know it's possible to make a pdf of a window or the desktop.

A friend turned me on to HyperSnap (http://www.hyperionics.com), but I haven't worked with it yet.  Then it would just be a matter of working directly on top of the image of the sequencer.  Or laying transparencies over it and plotting events/clusters, etc.  I really like what's happening with these scores: http://www.fallt.com/pdfs/scores.pdf


> I wonder
> if there's a way record a file of something that moves inside a window.

That would be cool!  The autonomy of the cursor.  A moving score.  I would imagine it could be done in Flash?

Anyone else (Bill?) working with scores?  I chatted with Kim when he was on my show about his sound grid, a lattice, with nodules of sound affixed here and there.  We also talked about another composer (Stockhausen?  Xenaxis?) who talked about sifting sound particles through a sieve.   I'm also interested in an organic model for a score--in an issue of The Wire a few months back a composer (I forget her name) was talking about sound as a kernel or a seed, and she was interested in the outer shell or bark.  As a painter and poet, this
metaphor is especially intriguing to me.

Any thoughts?  (Thanks, Bill, for your reply.)

G.

P.S.  I've always been fascinated by the Laban method of dance notation and its incredible graphic look: http://www.dancenotation.org/