Abstract
The slow but steady shift away from printed text into digital media has not yet modified the working habits of chamber music practitioners. If most instrumentalists still heavily rely on printed scores, audiences increasingly access notated music online, with printed scores synced to an audio recording on youtube for instance. This paper proposes to guide the listener and/or the performer with a cursor scrolling on the page with INScore, in order to examine the consequences of representing time in this way as opposed to traditional bars and beats notation. In addition to its score following interest for pedagogy and analysis, the networking possibilities of today’s ubiquitous technologies reveal interesting potentials for works in which the presence of a conductor is required for synchronization between performers and/or with fixed media (film or tape). A Raspberry Pi-embedded prototype for animated/distributed notation is presented here as a score player (such as the Decibel ScorePlayer, or SmartVox), in order to send and synchronize mp4 scores to any browser capable device connected to the same WIFI network. The corpus will concern pieces edited at BabelScores, an online library for contemporary classical music. The BabelScores pdf works, composed in standard engraving softwares, will be animated using INScore and video editors, in order to find strategies for animation or dynamic display of the unfolding of time, originally represented statically on the page.
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Notes
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The term screen-scores is attributed to Lindsey Vickery and Cat Hope [17].
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Tablature, as opposed to common music notation, can be conceived as prescriptive notation, in the sense defined by Mieko Kanno: ‘Prescriptive notation specifies the means of execution rather than the resultant configurations of pitch and rhythm’ (Kanno, 2007, p.1). The distinction between prescriptive and descriptive notation (or common music) was already discussed in the fifties, as can attest the following statement by Charles Seeger: ‘Prescriptive and descriptive uses of music writing, which is to say, between a blue-print of how a specific piece of music shall be made to sound and a report of how a specific performance of it actually did sound (...)’ (Seeger, 1958, p. 1).
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Babelscores (https://www.babelscores.com/) is an online score database for classical contemporary music, currently actively supporting the SmartVox project: http://1uh2.mj.am/nl2/1uh2/lgi4u.html.
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Those three pieces are respectively available at: https://youtu.be/SyFdR2HiF00, https://youtu.be/hQtyu1dcCaI, and https://youtu.be/ET_OBgFWx04.
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SoundWorks was initiated by the CoSiMa research project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and coordinated by Ircam.
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Babelscores (https://www.babelscores.com/) currently supports actively supporting the SmartVox project: http://1uh2.mj.am/nl2/1uh2/lgi4u.html. The first piece performed in Caen with the Babelbox is available at the following address: https://youtu.be/wUyw0KQa5Wo.
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A recording is available here.
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See for instance The Dying Pillow by Cat Hope.
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The corresponding tools are available at the following address: https://github.com/grame-cncm/inscore/tree/dev/scripts/Tools/drawmap.
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See Figols - Fullscore for demonstration, together with the corresponding separate part here).
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A video of the performance is available here.
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BabelScores now has partnerships with the world’s most prestigious universities, see: https://www.babelscores.com/partners.
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Rather than a static address (such as http://37.59.101.205:8000/), a bootstrap or a web-application may be more appropriate here.
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Via Max-for-Live, see https://youtu.be/rLy8DW_p2JE for demonstration.
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Bell, J., Fober, D., Fígols-Cuevas, D., Garcia-Velasquez, P. (2021). The BabelBox: An Embedded System for Score Distribution on Raspberry Pi with INScore, SmartVox and BabelScores. In: Kronland-Martinet, R., Ystad, S., Aramaki, M. (eds) Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music. CMMR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12631. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70210-6_23
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