[PD] Musical notation object on Pd
Ed Kelly
morph_2016 at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Nov 7 13:36:50 CET 2010
> Since there are already some projects going through in this area (e.g. pwgl or
>inscore), wouldn't it
> make sense to try to integrate with these, or try to help them, instead of
>reinventing the wheel?
Perhaps, but consider this:
The performer I am working with is a percussionist, and excellent at
sight-reading music. However, he's not by any stretch of the imagination a
programmer, and the idea of giving him command-line compilation issues to deal
with, or complex connectivity between packages, would kill the project straight
away. From me he needs to receive, via email, a PD patch that will just work. If
other libraries are "wrapped" into PD i.e. externals are made and integrated
into a future PD-extended, then these might provide some practical options for
me to work with classical musicians who aren't programmers (and the majority of
them are not). However, for the time being I am limited to that which can be
rendered by the current PD-extended straight out of the (in)box, without any
modifications to the computer it is running on.
That is why I'm building a system that uses just GEM and a truetype font, which
can be made into a single package and distributed to the performer of my piece.
If I had institutional support perhaps I could envisage something more complex
to work, but I have been unlucky in that respect. I could either give up, or try
to find a practical solution that works both for me and for a non-computer geek
classically trained player. I choose the latter because I want to make music.
Best,
Ed
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