Oh, and does it have to be generative, or can it be a fixed score? Download "Bleep" from my webpage - the score is a bunch of jpegs. Ed
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From: J bz jbeezez@gmail.com To: Ed Kelly morph_2016@yahoo.co.uk Sent: Tue, 4 January, 2011 10:01:08 Subject: Re: [PD] Musical notation object on Pd
Hi Ed,
Hope you don't mind me writing to you directly...
I was following this thread with interest, and have been checking your 'teasers' for your upcoming project with much interest. Hope it's all going well.
I'm looking for a .ttf for rendering very simple notation - notes, rests etc without the need for barlines. Could you recommend one, as I have been floundering somewhat and going round in circles trying to get one that works happily in pd & GEM?
Also, I have recently upgraded my lappy to a dual core machine and I noticed from your screenshot that you are also a fellow puredyner. You had, in your screenshot, a rather funky looking gizmo that, if I read it correctly, measures the use of the dual cores - what is that thing!:)
Very best wishes,
Julian Brooks
On 7 November 2010 12:36, Ed Kelly morph_2016@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Since there are already some projects going through in this area (e.g. pwgl or
inscore), wouldn't it make sense to try to integrate with these, or try to help them, instead of reinventing the wheel?
Perhaps, but consider this:
The performer I am working with is a percussionist, and excellent at sight-reading music. However, he's not by any stretch of the imagination a programmer, and the idea of giving him command-line compilation issues to deal with, or complex connectivity between packages, would kill the project straight away. From me he needs to receive, via email, a PD patch that will just work.
If
other libraries are "wrapped" into PD i.e. externals are made and integrated into a future PD-extended, then these might provide some practical options for me to work with classical musicians who aren't programmers (and the majority of them are not). However, for the time being I am limited to that which can be rendered by the current PD-extended straight out of the (in)box, without any modifications to the computer it is running on.
That is why I'm building a system that uses just GEM and a truetype font, which can be made into a single package and distributed to the performer of my piece. If I had institutional support perhaps I could envisage something more complex to work, but I have been unlucky in that respect. I could either give up, or
try
to find a practical solution that works both for me and for a non-computer geek classically trained player. I choose the latter because I want to make music.
Best, Ed
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Hey Ed,
Many thanks for getting back to me about this.
The score needs to be generative but that wont stop me having a good mooch around 'Bleep':)
Many thanks for the font and the cpu freq gov too, looks like a vital piece of software.
Best of luck with your piece, I know the stress involved with looming deadlines, looks like it will be good though. UoEA is a bit far for me but if all goes well you should get in touch and we should see if we can get you a gig up in Huddersfield where I'm currently based. Certainly sounds like the kinda thing we're into up here.
Cheers,
Jb
On 16 January 2011 15:37, Ed Kelly morph_2016@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Oh, and does it have to be generative, or can it be a fixed score? Download "Bleep" from my webpage - the score is a bunch of jpegs.
Ed
Metastudio 4 for Pure Data - coming soon! Metastudio 3 still available at http://sharktracks.co.uk/
*From:* J bz jbeezez@gmail.com *To:* Ed Kelly morph_2016@yahoo.co.uk *Sent:* Tue, 4 January, 2011 10:01:08 *Subject:* Re: [PD] Musical notation object on Pd
Hi Ed,
Hope you don't mind me writing to you directly...
I was following this thread with interest, and have been checking your 'teasers' for your upcoming project with much interest. Hope it's all going well.
I'm looking for a .ttf for rendering very simple notation - notes, rests etc without the need for barlines. Could you recommend one, as I have been floundering somewhat and going round in circles trying to get one that works happily in pd & GEM?
Also, I have recently upgraded my lappy to a dual core machine and I noticed from your screenshot that you are also a fellow puredyner. You had, in your screenshot, a rather funky looking gizmo that, if I read it correctly, measures the use of the dual cores - what is that thing!:)
Very best wishes,
Julian Brooks
On 7 November 2010 12:36, Ed Kelly morph_2016@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Since there are already some projects going through in this area (e.g.
pwgl or
inscore), wouldn't it make sense to try to integrate with these, or try to help them, instead
of
reinventing the wheel?
Perhaps, but consider this:
The performer I am working with is a percussionist, and excellent at sight-reading music. However, he's not by any stretch of the imagination a programmer, and the idea of giving him command-line compilation issues to deal with, or complex connectivity between packages, would kill the project straight away. From me he needs to receive, via email, a PD patch that will just work. If other libraries are "wrapped" into PD i.e. externals are made and integrated into a future PD-extended, then these might provide some practical options for me to work with classical musicians who aren't programmers (and the majority of them are not). However, for the time being I am limited to that which can be rendered by the current PD-extended straight out of the (in)box, without any modifications to the computer it is running on.
That is why I'm building a system that uses just GEM and a truetype font, which can be made into a single package and distributed to the performer of my piece. If I had institutional support perhaps I could envisage something more complex to work, but I have been unlucky in that respect. I could either give up, or try to find a practical solution that works both for me and for a non-computer geek classically trained player. I choose the latter because I want to make music.
Best, Ed
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