The manner in which composers overcome the agony of the blank slate in notation-based music composition is conditioned by many factors. The size of the staff on the page, the number of line breaks, and the means of note entry (handwritten,
May 29, 2015 44 min
The study of the Dunhuang pipa scores, a set of manuscripts from Xth century, written with a system of tablature for the pipa lute, has been facilitated by the development of a dedicated software program. It performs their trans-notation on
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This paper explores the idea of live coding programming environments as notational systems. The improvisational practice of live coding as combining both composition and performance is introduced and selected systems are discussed. The auth
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Visualization of musical structures is a powerful tool to assist composers and improvisers in their creative processes. Interpreting the Tonnetz as a simplicial complex it is possible to visualize notes and chords as subcomplexes endowed wi
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