RE: [microsound] scores/JMAX

[David Fodel <DFodel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill wrote:

There are probably ways to make qt movies of scores and run them in pro
tools above the soundfile visuals.

Perhaps you could scan the score in and convert the resulting image data
directly into audio...

	Bill also wrote:

> The only real problem I'm having with the idea is that I can't find the
> score.
> 
That is a bit of a problem... maybe instead you could take a photo of
someone "scoring" (in all it's myriad contexts) and convert THAT data into
audio. You could call it "Music for Scoring" or "More Songs about Scoring
and Mood" or maybe "4:22"

David Fodel
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> ----------
> From: 	Bill Jarboe
> Reply To: 	microsound
> Sent: 	Monday, May 20, 2002 4:02 PM
> To: 	microsound
> Subject: 	Re: [microsound] scores/JMAX
> 
> 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)
> > 
> > 
> >
> 
>                               Bill
> 
> 
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