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Notation Must Die

Marcus Millfield said:
Don't creators realize that clickbait titles turn people away from videos and not towards them?
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Sadly, thanks to the YouTube algorithm requiring such titles the net-loss is far lower than the gains made by conforming.

While to us, clickbait is off-putting, it sadly isn't true that it turns everyone away. It makes people click. And if it made you click, the algorithm-gods are happy and they will promote your video on the site.
 
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Tantacrul is such a wonderful creator. I remember first coming across his critique of Sibelius and just thinking “finally!”…it uncovered what a design car crash I had always known Sibelius was and also made me laugh out loud a lot.
But there is serious knowledge and research with Tantacrul. He knows his onions.
 
colony nofi said:
Oh this is a wonderful video yes yes.

A couple years ago I played theremin (!!) alongside a string ensemble that performed the work of the amazing composer, Cat Hope using their own app to help us all read synchronised visual scores.
apps.apple.com

‎Decibel ScorePlayer

‎ScorePlayer allows for network-synchronised scrolling of proportional colour music scores on multiple iPads. This is designed to facilitate the reading of scores featuring predominantly graphic notation in rehearsal and performance. Key Features: Comes with four built in scores, created by...
apps.apple.com

Really got me thinking about how utterly hopeless our western notation method is for some (a LOT) of music.
Also got me thinking about how when having scores recorded for TV / Film, I 100% of the time get much better results by being at the session - and while maybe not conducting, going in and talking (sometimes in quite some detail) thru the score with all the players before the big red light turns on. Explaining ideas that cannot be written on the page. And making human connection.

The linked video really sums up so many things I've thought about - and then delves into stuff I never really even considered. Its totally worth the hour for any composer that ever needs to prepare a score for performance.

Anyway - just in case anyone is interested, A short interview about Cat's app
www.cutcommonmag.com

Cat Hope: “Use technology to get what you want, not what it lets you have”

Decibel New Music Ensemble used their own iPad app in the creation of this new album.
www.cutcommonmag.com www.cutcommonmag.com

Cat writes some incredible music that I cannot imagine could be scored any other way than with their own piece of technology.
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I see this as no different to the written word. Like text music is written literally, its life comes from the performance. The performance needs human emotional input to make it come alive, sometimes that is in the hands of the players sometimes the composer often a conductor. The translation of what is written to what is heard is a collaborative effort.
Would we expect to reinvent the written word due to performances being stale and robotic (if taken literally and performed exactly as written)? The performance of a written word into something enjoyable is in the performers control we just don’t see it as clearly as were brought up to inject emotion into the words as part of our life long learning and experiences. Imaging if we all learnt the language of music to the same proficiency as our spoken language.

That’s probably taking this thread off in a tangent, apologies 😁
 
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