Ciao Taco, > That reminds me: we are hoping you'll be willing > to do a presentation of your music typesetting :-) >
I'm always thinking about writing down some notes. I think I can do it in July. Two days later I presented some considerations on algorithmic composition and automatic notation in our internal seminar, showing the ConTeXt+LilyPond connection. I will put soon some (125..) slides on line, but they're in Italian. (This was the abstract in English: > > Algorithmic composition and musical notation: a report on the on-going > project "I 6 nodi". > > Apart from many ante litteram examples, algorithmic musical > composition has been proposed and practiced extensively since the > '50s. Actually, it seems that this kind of approach has found its > natural realm more in the electroacoustic domain than in the acoustic > (instrumental) one. This is probably due also to the bottleneck of > musical notation: not by chance many contemporary musical > experimentations have been devoted to notation (Valle 2003). While the > synthesis of audio samples (as implied by electroacoustic music) is a > very simple technical task, the generation of musical notation (the > effective output of the composer's work) requires a much greater > effort. The talk will present a on-going project for algorithmic > generation of musical notation which uses different open source > libraries and softwares. In particular, the discussed case is an > extension of the GeoGraphy project (Valle - Lombardo 2003, Valle > 2004): the goal is generating structures of musical notation for the > piano series "I 6 nodi". > > Ref. > > Valle > 2003: La notazione musicale contemporanea. Aspetti semiotici ed > estetici, Torino, EDT 2003. > 2004: ``A Graph-Grammar for some local sound objects' relations in > Stravinkij's Sacre'', Musica come Linguaggio- Secondo Simposio > Internazionale sulle Scienze > del Linguaggio Musicale, Saint-R\'emy-de-Provence, > 14-17/10/2004. > > Valle, A., Lombardo V., 2003 > ``A two-level method to control granular synthesis'', XIV CIM - > Colloquio di Informatica > Musicale, Firenze, 8-10/05/203, pubbl. in XIV CIM 2003 - > Computer Music: Past and Future, Proceedings: 136-140. ) I would have already subscribed to the meeting if it were not in the exact day (24) of the second birthday of my daughter....So, now I'm tinkering about a solution :-) Best -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
