All:
Wanted to let you know about some recent work from my lab at Georgia Tech on laptop ensemble and real-time music notation. We hesitate to call it live coding (and thus I post it to this list with some hesitancy), since it's not a Turing-complete language by any means, but I nevertheless think its of interest and relevance to this list.
In SGLC, laptop musicians use the LOLC textual performance interface to create, share, borrow, and transform musical motives based on a collection of pre-composed score fragments. As the laptop players create these motives, they are displayed on computer monitors as real-time music notation that instrumental musicians must sight-read during the performance. This unusual setup encourages all of the musicians to share their musical ideas with each other, developing an improvisational conversation over time.
SGLC web page:
http://www.jasonfreeman.net/sglc/ [performance video + score]
LOLC software environment:
http://www.jasonfreeman.net/lolc/ [software download + score / video of the electroacoustic-only version of the environment]
NIME 2012 publication on SGLC:
http://distributedmusic.gatech.edu/jason/publications/pdf_files_of_publications/sglc_nime_2012.pdf
Enjoy!
--Jason
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Jason Freeman
Associate Professor, School of Music
College of Architecture
Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.jasonfreeman.net
Received on Tue Jun 05 2012 - 18:01:51 BST