maybe more to the other way around ? - create a piece of music which is readable through the linear architecture of musical notation or archiving of variants in sound production across different conformative instruments. raises the question of musical pedagogy well. conformation, again.. perhaps i have issues, but the idea of the oldest tuning fork in europe, for the middle C, does tend to seem endlessly stimulating. the form responsible for so many tuned minds, pop songs, patterns, tastes, opinions and pre-sets towards discord and harmony, computerised gismos to keep youth in perspective.. the list is endless. my guitar has 4 strings and i don't know what strings they are.
On 30 Jan 2009, at 13:42, Corrado Morgana wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
