Specifically, I am thinking something that also has articulations, phrasing, and additional data, just beyond the notes and their length. I don't know a ton about music xml, but I am sure it is a great start.
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Some specific criteria that the software would require: Notation software is good, because I can look at the music and understand it much more, but the entry always seems much more tedious. Most of the software out there, seems to be aimed at either notation, or getting a realistic sound, but they seem a little clunky on the actual composition side.įor instance, I am not the worlds greatest piano player, so when I try and play a line into a sequencer, it never quite sounds like what I have in mind. Would it require some special piece of hardware, like a specific controller? What kind of functionality would it have?
But if you were to build a new piece of software from the ground up, what would it look like? I am not specifically saying computer generated music, although, that could be a part of the program. Really, what I am thinking about is, what can be done, that isn't being done right now? How can we rethink the possibilites of composing, with the aid of computers? I have been thinking about this recently and I would like to get everyone's ideas on what would be the ideal music composition software. It remains to be seen whether or not the term spiroid will catch on in relation to the concept I have registered the web domain towards collating information on spiroid related things, both historical and contemporary.Posted by Jon Brantingham on Maat 1:36am in Music Technology With software products such SPIRAL by Photosounder, and the SnailAnalyser becoming available, there is likely to be an increase of interest in the subject of spiroid-like representations. Compared to standard analysers, this representation allows simple visualization of active zones in a sound (similar to a spectrum) and organises frequencies per notes on a tempered scale like a tuner.Īt the time of writing, further details of this project were scarce the authors, however, have kindly directed me to one document that is public, and which gives ‘the basic idea and a basic result with a picture’ (Figure 4.26).
The SnailAnalyser is a frequency domain sound analyser with an original chromatically aligned representation. The most recently found example of new software that would appear to be using a spiroid-based mapping was presented at the ‘IRCAM Forum Workshop 2013’ (November 22) it has not yet been released, but is described in abstract for that event (Picasso & Hélie, 2013): During the period of this project, however, there have been new software releases found to have spiroid-like interface elements, and I hope to see many more in the future.
2005), it has been a matter of some perplexity that this archetypical visual representation is not commonly found in computer music software. For me it was discovered after a compositional process involving hand drawn representations of pitch-classes, followed by scales of notes, and then continua, and since I began development of the spiroid (c. There are many routes by which one may arrive at a concept the same as, or very similar to the spiroid. This chapter has shown that the general concept of what I call a spiroid-frequency-space is a long established form of visual representation in addition to the Drobisch type of helix described and extended by Shepard (see §2.2.2), the pitch and frequency-domain aspects of sound are often represented two-dimensionally with a spiralling form.
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