Niels Mayer wrote:
> Robin --
>
> Many thanks for the information and perspective you provided. I too
> thought ABC might be a good possibility; would MusicXML be an
> improvement?:
It certainly offers more possibilities. ABC is only a subset.
MusicXML has it's shortcomings - as presented by Reinhold Kainhofer this
years LAC: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/?page=program - but these are
mostly limitations concerning typesetting not MIDI/Musical ones.
> http://musicxml.org/dtds/midixml.html ... I also found this:
> http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/midi/
http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/midi/sequencer.php is fun to toy around
with (there goes another half-hour of precious time). The sources are
available for download but there's no license with them. mmh.
We're also drifting a bit off topic: an archive or revision system for
midi compositions is not the same an online midi-remix platform; though
the latter could make use of the former.
From the subject I gather that you were only looking for such a system,
but from the text you wrote in previous emails you were also hinting at
creating one..
building a web-archive is probably not too complicated; gaining critical
mass and maintaining it is. I don't know if any ccHost or freesound devs
are subscribed to LAD; but reaching out to those seems like a wise step
to do.
As for potential users & use-cases; maybe "Packet In" (formerly the
Linux-Audio-User Chillout Band) can provide some input.
> FYI -- my father sent me this link to NYT article which is *very*
> interesting, not quite what i was looking for, but interesting "proof
> of concept" (and indication of public interest in this sort of thing)
> nonetheless....
yeah; I was suprised to learn that "only 12.6 percent of American adults
play a musical instrument even once per year."
>
> http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/compose-your-own/
> --> http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/wordpress/
> --> http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/PianoEtudes.html?tag=944
>
> http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/wordpress/?page_id=367
They don't work here with Firefox on Linux :/
> ////////////// ////////////// //////////////
> ////////////// ////////////// //////////////
> Thank you for your interest in composing your own version of Piano
> Etudes. To create your own version and share it with other readers of
> The Score, a series of writings by composers on The New York Times’
> Web site, follow these steps.
> 1. Click on an etude below to begin creating your own version.
> 2. Once you are happy with your version, click the sharing menu on the
> left side of the screen, click the “Save and share my etude” link, and
> then click the button labeled “submit to a special gallery for readers
> of The Score.”
> ...
> ////////////// ////////////// //////////////
> ////////////// ////////////// //////////////
>
> http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/compose-your-own-part-2/
> --> http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/wordpress/index.php?cat=9
>
> ////////////// ////////////// //////////////
> ////////////// ////////////// //////////////
> In a recent post on The Score, I invited readers to use an interactive
> Web site to create and share their own unique versions of four solo
> piano etudes, regardless of their background in music or in
> composition. The Web site presents each etude as a graphical
> “open-form” collection of short musical fragments that can be arranged
> in an almost infinite number of ways.
>
> Readers submitted nearly 100 remixes to a special gallery on the
> project’s Web site. (I listened to all of them and selected my
> favorite version of each etude. The pianist Jenny Lin then printed out
> the scores for these four versions, practiced them, and recorded them
> at Patrych Sound Studios in New York. Video clips of her performing
> each one have been added below.
> ////////////// ////////////// //////////////
> ////////////// ////////////// //////////////
It certainly oversimplifies the process of composition and comparing it
with Stockhausen's Fragments (from TFA) is IMO kind of ridiculous.
Etudes are pieces to perfect one technical skills on an instrument; so
building an "Etude remixer" is even more questionable.
That being said, it's still a nice prove-of-concept.
best,
robin
> The author : "Jason Freeman has written music for the American
> Composers Orchestra and created Internet art for Rhizome and
> Turbulence. He lives in Atlanta, where he is an assistant professor at
> the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech. His Web site is
> http://jasonfreeman.net "
>
> -- Niels
> http://nielsmayer.com
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