Re: [microsound] scores/JMAX

[Bill Jarboe <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 5/20/02 2:16 PM, Jorge Blank at jorgepiaget@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>  Stockhausen wouldn't need to shift
> particles being as he is pure energy and god and all
> of that.

It's a tough job, somebody has to do it.
> 
> your discussion of scores brings up the potentially
> longwinded debate/discussion regarding the changing
> function of those things with regard to sound (this
> has been happening for like 50 years).  Scores used to
> be, of course, instrunctions for fabrication of pieces
> following specific linguistic rules and cultural
> context.  They function in many different ways now,
> including as pure visual objects.
> 


I had this really awesome idea for a music project. I have ( hopefully) this
symphonic score that I wrote during my formative years. It's compact ( about
24 pages) and the parts are kind of inspired.

 My idea was to publish the score on the internet and then musicians could
play the parts with whatever instruments they had on hand. Almost everyone
who plays music has a metronome of some type and an 'a440' reference. The
parts could then be recorded and sent (to Me), assembled in pro tools and
the resulting pre-mixes could be made available for dsp processing and so
forth. . . reassembled from different perspectives.

  The only real problem I'm having with the idea is that I can't find the
score. I've located other things from the same era , so it must just be in a
different folder.I could write a completely new one; I don't play in
orchestras now so I don't have that 'symphonic mindset'( I don't hear the
different instruments repeatedly and think about what I'd like to do with
them).

  This idea could be a way to help develop a new kind of 'symphonic
mindset'. 


There are probably ways to make qt movies of scores and run them in pro
tools above the soundfile visuals.
> 
> 
> so much could be said about this but it makes me sort
> of sleepy right now
> 
> what happens if you try to run jMax on a mac with OS
> 9?


 Nothing. (last time I tried it)
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> 
>

                              Bill