David Powers a écrit :
This sounds interesting, I will take a look at it when I get out of work...
As far as what improvisors need, I'm working in the more 'experimental' improv scene right now, which means:
- They won't be playing 'Cmajor7' but rather collections of pitch
cells such as (0 3 5 1 2 4) in some specific key 2. There will be additional types of symbols and data, or poetic instructions 3. There will be instructions for some improvisors to lead and others to follow the leader at various points 4. The ultimate idea for a current project is that there will be a conductor coordinating improvisors, able to send commands across a network to multiple improvisors on the fly. Of course, this opens the way for a computer to take the role of conductor also. But in either case, there is not a score but rather the structure if the work itself is also improvised anew at every performance, out of a collection of potential cells and potential instructions that define the space of possibilities that any given work inhabits.
In other words, don't think that 'improvisors' means that this is in any way going to be 'jazz'. Think more along the lines of the music of Webern + Morton Feldman + Cecil Taylor + John Cage...
~David
I was more thinking about K. Stockhausen, but anyway if this sounds out of tune, or smells funny, there always will be people that say 'it's jazz'.
- (0 3 5 1 2 4) might make sense for an engineer because zero for him
would be the first note, but a musician uses to start with one, not zero. If this notation is for expressing some voicings, that is a lot easier and free to read under jazz notation for a human, unless the numbers represents guitar tablatures.
It almost sounds like the machine will help classical musicians or mathemusicians to do like if they were improvising, interesting...
2.3. I've played a piece long time ago (so long I don't remember the title), with other improvisators, where notes on the musical score were replaced by different symbols that give instructions differents than time and pitch, but also the tone, or pick a note, or replay the other voice's pitch or rythm, or tone, or play same fast, go slow... That was funny, and sure it would be more funny if it's a computer that conducts everyone!
- I imagine that puredata will have to transpose for each instrument,
but if only the key (or key modulation) is given it would be easy to do.
A dictionnary of symbols is so easier to read than numbers for expressing musical events, that's why I've asked if you used font files, but maybe using gem geos or texture files would make it more elegant or versatile?
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