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September 22, 2016

Introduction of the Symposium on Notation for New Instruments and Musical Expression - Thor Magnusson

September 22, 2016 07 min

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Notation’s struggle to the surface (or, towards concrete notation) - Einar Torfi Einarsson

Notation is a system within a system. It has evolved in between or amidst the composer and the performer/instrument and has had a clear position (composer-score-performer), functionality (communication tool and performer engagement), and di

September 22, 2016 11 min

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On Notating Algorithmic Machines - Thor Magnusson, Thor Magnusson

Live coding has been defined as a new path in the evolution of the musical score. Live coding practice accentuates the score, and whilst it is the perfect vehicle for the performance of algorithmic music, it also transforms the compositiona

September 22, 2016 16 min

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How technology affects the music score - Dominique Fober

New technologies pose new challenges for the music score: interactive music, new instruments, mixed medias, purely gesture based performances, are among the domains explored by the contemporary creation that overflow the classical frame of

September 22, 2016 13 min

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Playing the Sound Space

September 22, 2016 18 min

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Object of Notation

September 22, 2016 10 min

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Ryan Ross Smith: Study n°56 - Ryan Ross Smith

September 22, 2016 10 min

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Cipher Series - Pedro Rebelo

September 22, 2016 22 min

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The absence of notation - exploring a haptic aurality - Franziska Schroeder

Notation marks and explains, it communicates and documents, it prescribes and produces. Within such notational possibilities signs are able to formalise, to solidify but also to expand practice. And while the ritual of performance practices

September 22, 2016 12 min

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Questions on notations for interactive systems - Frédéric Bevilacqua

I will present and discuss some current issues on movement notation for interactive systems. The growing use of interactive machine learning with new musical interfaces brings new opportunities for movement notation and annotation. It also

September 22, 2016 13 min

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Old notation, new interface: embodied navigation of complex piano notation with the GesTCom - Pavlos Antoniadis

The evolution of traditional notation towards increased specificity and complexity has been expanding its role from the composer’s “brain in a vat” into an elastic interface dynamically amalgamated with instruments and performing bodies. In

September 22, 2016 14 min

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A visual moment - Claudia Molitor

As composers we naturally focus on sound as our main material, yet spend much of our time drawing – drawing notation. Whether with pen and paper or with notational software, we have much common gound with designers and architects at the ear

September 22, 2016 14 min

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Notation as technology - Jonathan Impett

The technologies – codes and materials – of inscription play a vital role in forming musical objects and practices, and crucially inform the discourses of music. Many current issues can be traced back to the beginning of the C20th, to the b

September 22, 2016 13 min

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New Notations and Embodied Experience

The mechanical vibrations we shape and apprehend as artistic sound lend themselves to potentially infinite kinds of notation. Systems devised to plot, store, and recreate sonic events are more or less context-bound: western classical scores

September 22, 2016 14 min

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Towards Non-linguistic Writing for Music: A Performative Approach - Enrique TomĂĄs

In my talk, I will defend that representationalism has a history and that non-linguistic approaches for writing music might be an alternative for music notation. As Derrida states when referring to Pierce's philosophy of notation: “From the

September 22, 2016 19 min

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The Trappings of Choice: Mediating the Democratization of Participation through Control - Ryan Ross Smith

The development, formalization, codification, and maintenance of common practice notation [CPN] demonstrates a parallel yet intertwined tract to the evolution of musical thought and practice, and while CPN is not the only Western notational

September 22, 2016 14 min

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Signs and Symbols for a New Music

Designing a comprehensive notation for a new musical technology: in particular the challenge of notation for a new musical gesture controller that supports conventional and extended two-bow cello playing with the unusual feature that it has

September 22, 2016 15 min

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Notating with IanniX - Score in space and time - Thierry Coduys

IanniX is a graphical real-time open-source sequencer, based on Iannis Xenakis works, for digital art. Its graphical space spans several dimensions and time scales. Using a palette of fundamental objects such as triggers (events), curves (t

September 22, 2016 15 min

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