Robin -- Many thanks for the information and perspective you provided. I too thought ABC might be a good possibility; would MusicXML be an improvement?: http://musicxml.org/dtds/midixml.html ;... I also found this: http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/midi/ FYI -- my father sent me this link to NYT article which is *very* interesting, not quite what i was looking for, but interesting "proof of concept" (and indication of public interest in this sort of thing) nonetheless.... http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/compose-your-own/ --> http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/wordpress/ --> http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/PianoEtudes.html?tag=944 http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/wordpress/?page_id=367 ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// Thank you for your interest in composing your own version of Piano Etudes. To create your own version and share it with other readers of The Score, a series of writings by composers on The New York Times’ Web site, follow these steps. 1. Click on an etude below to begin creating your own version. 2. Once you are happy with your version, click the sharing menu on the left side of the screen, click the “Save and share my etude” link, and then click the button labeled “submit to a special gallery for readers of The Score.” ... ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/compose-your-own-part-2/ --> http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/wordpress/index.php?cat=9 ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// In a recent post on The Score, I invited readers to use an interactive Web site to create and share their own unique versions of four solo piano etudes, regardless of their background in music or in composition. The Web site presents each etude as a graphical “open-form” collection of short musical fragments that can be arranged in an almost infinite number of ways. Readers submitted nearly 100 remixes to a special gallery on the project’s Web site. (I listened to all of them and selected my favorite version of each etude. The pianist Jenny Lin then printed out the scores for these four versions, practiced them, and recorded them at Patrych Sound Studios in New York. Video clips of her performing each one have been added below. ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// The author : "Jason Freeman has written music for the American Composers Orchestra and created Internet art for Rhizome and Turbulence. He lives in Atlanta, where he is an assistant professor at the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech. His Web site is http://jasonfreeman.net " -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
