Niels Mayer wrote: > Robin -- > > Many thanks for the information and perspective you provided. I too > thought ABC might be a good possibility; would MusicXML be an > improvement?: It certainly offers more possibilities. ABC is only a subset. MusicXML has it's shortcomings - as presented by Reinhold Kainhofer this years LAC: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/?page=program - but these are mostly limitations concerning typesetting not MIDI/Musical ones. > http://musicxml.org/dtds/midixml.html ... I also found this: > http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/midi/ http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/midi/sequencer.php is fun to toy around with (there goes another half-hour of precious time). The sources are available for download but there's no license with them. mmh. We're also drifting a bit off topic: an archive or revision system for midi compositions is not the same an online midi-remix platform; though the latter could make use of the former. >From the subject I gather that you were only looking for such a system, but from the text you wrote in previous emails you were also hinting at creating one.. building a web-archive is probably not too complicated; gaining critical mass and maintaining it is. I don't know if any ccHost or freesound devs are subscribed to LAD; but reaching out to those seems like a wise step to do. As for potential users & use-cases; maybe "Packet In" (formerly the Linux-Audio-User Chillout Band) can provide some input. > 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.... yeah; I was suprised to learn that "only 12.6 percent of American adults play a musical instrument even once per year." > > 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 They don't work here with Firefox on Linux :/ > ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// > ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// > 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. > ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// > ////////////// ////////////// ////////////// It certainly oversimplifies the process of composition and comparing it with Stockhausen's Fragments (from TFA) is IMO kind of ridiculous. Etudes are pieces to perfect one technical skills on an instrument; so building an "Etude remixer" is even more questionable. That being said, it's still a nice prove-of-concept. best, robin > 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
