Comments on: Ligeti’s Artikulation: What Might Future Digital Notation Look Like? (Plus Twitter Finds)

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:44:18 +0000

Check out http://audiosculptures.com/sculptures.html for another take on visual score experimentation. The "sculptures" (as I call them) are created in CAD and the audio is generated directly from the drawing, making it something of a wysiwyg sequencer. An OSS standalone version of the AutoCAD plugin is in the works. Regards, Andy F.

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GraphicalScores.org » Blog Archive » Artikulation — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:21:37 +0000

[...] A graphical score created afterwards : here [...]

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:18:37 +0000

@fairbanks: That’s correct, as the post states. The scores weren’t even created by Ligeti; they came from Rainer Wehinger. Of course, Ligeti himself has some interesting scores for instruments. But that’s my whole point; electronic music doesn’t have the same need for a score to function as a template for performers, necessarily.

By: fairbanks

fairbanks — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:00:07 +0000

Ligeti made the scores AFTER the pieces were finished.

These scores were not intended as templates for recreating the music in performance.

By: Inzs

Inzs — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:37:43 +0000

I actually have the book and the LP at home.. It also features af description of every sound..

By: beatfix

beatfix — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:05:02 +0000

Looks like a fancier version of the Music Animation Machine:
http://www.musanim.com/

One quibble – I prefer it when the notation scrolls forward instead of paging – that way you can follow the visual flow a bit more seamlessly. On the plus side, I like the expressiveness of the shapes quite a bit.

By: ian

ian — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:43:28 +0000

Eric beat me to it! Pd’s data structure scheme is quite interesting, there is a good example out there by one of the Pd users that has an .mp3 along with the picture of the data structure used to control it – i’ll see if i can find the link.
one thing that i’ve always wanted to see (although it couldn’t really exist in paper form, only digital) is some sort of 3d notation, layering different instruments or perhaps orchestral sections over each other (i think this would be an amazing way to check out classical music compositions)

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:37:42 +0000

Pure Data’s eponymous “data structures” and template mechanism are a step in this direction for sequencing:

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Pd_documentation/x2.htm#s9

sorry if it’s already been mentioned :)

By: analogueak

analogueak — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:14:19 +0000

consider that people also hear things differently depending on what they’ve experienced, musical or otherwise. it seems there’s a point where the listener can “look ahead” and at least know there’s something coming shortly.

By: Alan Senderowitsch

Alan Senderowitsch — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:51:35 +0000

I had an experience with a contrabass player who has to play along with an electroacoustic piece I wrote. It was helpful to him to have the graphical notacion of the events of the track to keep on tempo and expression. You can see the score in http://www.myspace.com/alansende.

Best from Argentina!

Alan