As a bit of a musical sod, it's interesting as a piece of reverse cryptography for want of a better term. Desciphering the algorithm for musicality rather than seeing what passages of text sound like, writing text specifically for it's musical qualities. Ending up with several intertwingled artefacts, Text: probably concrete poetic in form, the music itself and the act of decryption
Off I go... C -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of benjamin Sent: 30 January 2009 1:39 PM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] P22 Music Text Composition Generator. cheers marc. i'm sitting here writing a solo for cello from a psycho geographic journey to the river for exhibition this spring. sure there's some useful theory in p22. On 30 Jan 2009, at 13:30, marc garrett wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > > Here is where it began :-) > > I recently posted a link this below.... > > -------------------------> > > P22 Music Text Composition Generator. > > The P22 Music Text Composition Generator allows any text to be > converted > into a musical composition. This composition is displayed in musical > notation and simultaneously generated as a midi file. > > The P22 Music Composition Font was proposed in 1997 to the John Cage > Trust as an accompaniment to the John Cage text font based on the > handwriting of the composer. The idea was basic and simple-every > letter > of the alphabet was assigned to a note on a scale. This would allow > for > any text to be converted into musical notation. The idea was > rejected by > the John Cage Trust, however the John Cage Silence font based on his > famous 4'33" composition was accepted and continues to be offered for > sale to this day. An earlier project based on the work of Marcel > Duchamp > was also influential in the evolution of this project. This page and > current project has no affiliation with John Cage, the John Cage Trust > or the Marcel Duchamp estate. > > http://p22.com/musicfont/ > > >> i cant find the rest of this conversation. has the title changed ? >> >> >> On 30 Jan 2009, at 13:13, marc garrett wrote: >> >> >>> Not sure Rob, but I know for a fact that he didn't use Midi :-) >>> >>> marc >>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:39 PM, marc garrett >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> The idea was basic and simple-every letter >>>>> of the alphabet was assigned to a note on a scale. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Didn't Mozart use something like this for commissions? I don't >>>> mean >>>> the dice game named after him, I'm sure I heard somewhere that >>>> he had >>>> a letter-to-note-sequence system. >>>> >>>> Grr. I wish I kept better references. ;-) >>>> >>>> - Rob. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
