Subject: Re: "Traditional" Scoring for Electronic Music
From: Aki Pasoulas (pasoulas@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2006 - 06:45:21 EDT
Here is an essay on scores (and performance) in EA music:
http://www.pasoulas.plus.com/ScorePerformance.html
Half the essay deals with the issue of notation but there are no
score examples online, only references. Do not judge it harshly,
I wrote that when I was an undergrad student... You may extract
something useful from it, or from the bibliography. I probably
need to take it off line at some point...
Best,
Aki
--- Ryan Supak <ryansupak@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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