(See photo at top, by which we can prove that the event happened. This question has been a topic I’ve visited in a couple of talks, first here in New York at in/out fest last December, then most recently for a more general audience at RSVP, a new conversation series in Hamburg, Germany hosted by the multi-disciplinary design studio Precious Forever. Now, we face the daunting question of how to build that language overnight. Musical notational systems had traditionally evolved over centuries. (Any composer will quickly tell you as much.) Notation is a model by which we think about music, one so ingrained that even people who can’t read music are impacted by the way scores shape musical practice.Īll of this creates a special challenge. Notation has always been more than just a way of telling musicians what to do. Now, digital languages for communicating musical ideas between devices, users, and software, and storing and reproducing those ideas, take on the role notation alone once did. The history of music and the history of music notation are closely intertwined. I just seem to generally skip the years 1700-1985. And yes, this is the other part of my life behind me. Speaking in Hamburg to a terrific group of assembled locals from a variety of design backgrounds.
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