Re: [linux-audio-user] Note typesetting for Linux

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Note typesetting for Linux
From: Michal Seta (mis_AT_creazone.32k.org)
Date: Tue Jul 13 2004 - 15:52:45 EEST


ricktaylor_AT_speakeasy.net writes:

> I think the above methods need to somehow be extended to work with samples. Either that or computer audio needs its own form of musical representation.

That's a good point. Not only samples, though, synthesis and DSP as
well. However, there are as many 'scoring' systems as
there are composers. Stockhousen has actually realized a score for
his 'Studie II' which is an electronic composition for tape. The
score provides enough information to exactly recreate the work using
an oscillator (or a number of them, I can't recall) and a tape
recording/dubbing machine. Someone has actually used it to generate
the piece in real-time with Max/MSP. However, synthesis methods have
evolved in complexity a lot in the past 50 years...

>
> Maybe we need to just skip the idea of any sort of representation outside of a song or audio file? If so... maybe we need to break with tradition a bit and make "song" files themselves provide a higher degree of functionality?

Well, must be _the_ reason I started improvising :) I must have been,
like: ' Ahh... stop trying to write down what you mean. Just get out there and _play_!'

Also, no notation system is complete. Not even text. I'm talking
from a performer's point of view, of course.

./MiS

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