[Study No. 50][Notational Becoming][Speculations]
The use of animation in contemporary notational practices has become increasingly prevalent over the last ten years, due in large part to the increased compositional activities throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America, and in particular Iceland and Western Australia.1 The publication...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.1289553 2023-05-15T16:51:08+02:00 [Study No. 50][Notational Becoming][Speculations] Smith, Ryan Ross 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1289553 https://zenodo.org/record/1289553 unknown Zenodo https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1289554 Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Text Conference paper article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1289553 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1289554 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z The use of animation in contemporary notational practices has become increasingly prevalent over the last ten years, due in large part to the increased compositional activities throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America, and in particular Iceland and Western Australia.1 The publication of several foundational texts,2 and the materialization of focused scholarly meetings3 and online consolidation projects4 have also contributed to the expansion of this growing field of animated notational practice. The range of compositional ideas repre- sented by these scores is vast, encompassing a wide va- riety of stylistic approaches and technological experimentation. While these ideas often demonstrate intriguing compositional directions, and the unique dynamic functionalities and visual characteristics of animated scores are clearly distinct from traditionally-fixed scores, it is the real-time generative processes of these scores that represent a shift in the very ontology of the musical score. In this paper I speculate on one possible framing for this ontological distinction by focusing on several attributes that, in combination, most explicitly demonstrate this distinction. These include the real-time, process-based qualities of generative animated notations, the openness that enables these procedural functionalities, the displacement of interpretive influence, and the timeliness of these processes in respect to the temporal relationship between generation, representation as notation, and sonic realization. A new work, Study no. 50, will be examined as a practical demonstration of these attributes, and will function as a jumping off point for a speculative discussion of the concept of Notational Becoming. Conference Object Iceland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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The use of animation in contemporary notational practices has become increasingly prevalent over the last ten years, due in large part to the increased compositional activities throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America, and in particular Iceland and Western Australia.1 The publication of several foundational texts,2 and the materialization of focused scholarly meetings3 and online consolidation projects4 have also contributed to the expansion of this growing field of animated notational practice. The range of compositional ideas repre- sented by these scores is vast, encompassing a wide va- riety of stylistic approaches and technological experimentation. While these ideas often demonstrate intriguing compositional directions, and the unique dynamic functionalities and visual characteristics of animated scores are clearly distinct from traditionally-fixed scores, it is the real-time generative processes of these scores that represent a shift in the very ontology of the musical score. In this paper I speculate on one possible framing for this ontological distinction by focusing on several attributes that, in combination, most explicitly demonstrate this distinction. These include the real-time, process-based qualities of generative animated notations, the openness that enables these procedural functionalities, the displacement of interpretive influence, and the timeliness of these processes in respect to the temporal relationship between generation, representation as notation, and sonic realization. A new work, Study no. 50, will be examined as a practical demonstration of these attributes, and will function as a jumping off point for a speculative discussion of the concept of Notational Becoming. |
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