10 Jul
2004
10 Jul
'04
12:19 p.m.
Last Friday 09 July 2004 16:52, Michal Seta was like:
Any piece of music (as long as it's
within the traditional 12 tone equal temperament) can be represented
using any of the above methods.
Ah yes, and there's another thing.
This is enough of a disharmonic straightjacket as it is. ;-]
No, I'm not starting a bun fight, more of a bun dance :-)
We all have different needs and uses for our Linux systems. What interests me
is where the cutting edge of technology meets the avant-garde in art. Yeah, I
know, they've been sleeping together since the 'new wave' of whatever began.
As a composer, Linux offers far more potential for finding effective ways to
score, document and realise new ways of making music. The traditional 12-tone
system died along with many innocent people in the second world war (and it's
out of tune), traditional scoring methods will only represent a limited
amount of note information. To accurately represent some of my musical ideas
I can imagine importing conventional scores into GIMP, dia or even OOdraw for
further processing, possibly including pd patches and the like. I say
imagine, I'd need a printer that could handle that kind of volume of
printing. I'll let you know when I get there.
I guess Linux is capable of accommodating the more traditional approaches
equally well.
cheers
tim hall