Last Friday 09 July 2004 16:52, Michal Seta was like: > Any piece of music (as long as it's > within the traditional 12 tone equal temperament) can be represented > using any of the above methods. Ah yes, and there's another thing. This is enough of a disharmonic straightjacket as it is. ;-] No, I'm not starting a bun fight, more of a bun dance :-) We all have different needs and uses for our Linux systems. What interests me is where the cutting edge of technology meets the avant-garde in art. Yeah, I know, they've been sleeping together since the 'new wave' of whatever began. As a composer, Linux offers far more potential for finding effective ways to score, document and realise new ways of making music. The traditional 12-tone system died along with many innocent people in the second world war (and it's out of tune), traditional scoring methods will only represent a limited amount of note information. To accurately represent some of my musical ideas I can imagine importing conventional scores into GIMP, dia or even OOdraw for further processing, possibly including pd patches and the like. I say imagine, I'd need a printer that could handle that kind of volume of printing. I'll let you know when I get there. I guess Linux is capable of accommodating the more traditional approaches equally well. cheers tim hall
