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Mon May 24 11:11:14 UTC 2010


but from the text you wrote in previous emails you were also hinting at
creating one..

building a web-archive is probably not too complicated; gaining critical
mass and maintaining it is. I don't know if any ccHost or freesound devs
are subscribed to LAD; but reaching out to those seems like a wise step
to do.

As for potential users & use-cases; maybe "Packet In" (formerly the
Linux-Audio-User Chillout Band) can provide some input.

> FYI -- my father sent me this link to NYT article  which is *very*
> interesting, not quite what i was looking for, but interesting "proof
> of concept" (and indication of public interest in this sort of thing)
> nonetheless....

yeah; I was suprised to learn that "only 12.6 percent of American adults
play a musical instrument even once per year."

> 
> http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/compose-your-own/
> --> http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/wordpress/
> --> http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/PianoEtudes.html?tag=944
> 
> http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/wordpress/?page_id=367

They don't work here with Firefox on Linux :/

> //////////////         //////////////         //////////////
> //////////////         //////////////         //////////////
> Thank you for your interest in composing your own version of Piano
> Etudes. To create your own version and share it with other readers of
> The Score, a series of writings by composers on The New York Times’
> Web site, follow these steps.
> 1. Click on an etude below to begin creating your own version.
> 2. Once you are happy with your version, click the sharing menu on the
> left side of the screen, click the “Save and share my etude” link, and
> then click the button labeled “submit to a special gallery for readers
> of The Score.”
>  ...
> //////////////         //////////////         //////////////
> //////////////         //////////////         //////////////
> 
>  http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/compose-your-own-part-2/
>    --> http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/wordpress/index.php?cat=9
> 
> //////////////         //////////////         //////////////
> //////////////         //////////////         //////////////
> In a recent post on The Score, I invited readers to use an interactive
> Web site to create and share their own unique versions of four solo
> piano etudes, regardless of their background in music or in
> composition. The Web site presents each etude as a graphical
> “open-form” collection of short musical fragments that can be arranged
> in an almost infinite number of ways.
> 
> Readers submitted nearly 100 remixes to a special gallery on the
> project’s Web site. (I listened to all of them and selected my
> favorite version of each etude. The pianist Jenny Lin then printed out
> the scores for these four versions, practiced them, and recorded them
> at Patrych Sound Studios in New York. Video clips of her performing
> each one have been added below.
> //////////////         //////////////         //////////////
> //////////////         //////////////         //////////////

It certainly oversimplifies the process of composition and comparing it
with Stockhausen's Fragments (from TFA) is IMO kind of ridiculous.
Etudes are pieces to perfect one technical skills on an instrument; so
building an "Etude remixer" is even more questionable.

That being said, it's still a nice prove-of-concept.

best,
robin

> The author : "Jason Freeman has written music for the American
> Composers Orchestra and created Internet art for Rhizome and
> Turbulence. He lives in Atlanta, where he is an assistant professor at
> the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech. His Web site is
> http://jasonfreeman.net "
> 
> -- Niels
> http://nielsmayer.com



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