Subject: Re: "Traditional" Scoring for Electronic Music
From: Ryan Supak (ryansupak@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2006 - 23:31:28 EDT
Hi,
Thanks for the questions. They help me to understand -- myself -- what I
mean, more clearly.
I'm referring to written notation, including but not limited to those five
horizontal lines that go across the page.
I'm familiar with some very adventurous written notation that takes a lot of
liberties and devises many of its own symbols. I'm less interested in
taking lots of liberties with crazy new symbols, and more interested in
using what's already there to the fullest.
I think that the more traditional symbology is adhered to, the more
shareable a score would be.
The type of music I'm referring to isn't primarily MIDI-sequenced stuff.
I'm more interested in electronic music performed live, and then mostly the
type of thing that is performed with Max/MSP patches or Ableton Live. The
work of Christian Fennesz, or Nobokazu Takemura, are popular examples.
I'm thinking of music in which variations in timbre are at least as
important as variations in rhythm and melody.
I think the road I'm going to end up taking, is some (hopefully) judicious
mixture of traditional notation and new kinds of notation.
Thanks!
rs
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