Subject: Re: "Traditional" Scoring for Electronic Music
joh_robe@alcor.concordia.ca
Date: Mon May 01 2006 - 00:13:28 EDT
Traditional notation, being instruction based, is just a sequence of symbols
that have widely understood meanings. You could for instance use the same
symbols but include in the performance notes alternative meanings. For
example, let's say you are using Live, you could write a whole note middle C
with a crescendo hairpin as well as a line above this similar to one used to
indicate specified vibrato rates (wobbly one that goes all over the place).
When depressed the middle C could trigger a loop of a film reel, while the
crescendo is the mod wheel controlling the amount of the 1st send effect and
the line above indicate how to automate the playback speed. You could write a
sustain pedal marking so that the middle is held without hands allowing the
performer to operate the maximum amount of physical controllers. Just a
thought, I haven't ever written a score for computer but I don't see why it
should be temendously different than what we already have. let me know what
you think.
John
> 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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