source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 18:59:48 -0700 Subject: non-notation From: Lindsay Shaw and Paul Turner Jonathan M. Szanto wrote, concerning my comment about notation: >...doesn't Paul's last bit, "the situation may be different where performers >are involved but I find it a tremendous relief not to have to bother with >it" read almost like "bother with them" (i.e., live musicians performing the >work)? Yes - my choice of the word 'bother' my have sounded dismissive of live performers. I apologise. Be assured that it was not my intention to denigrate anyone's musical practice. It happens that for one reason or another, playing live can fail, temporarily or otherwise, to be an option. Then the resort to non-realtime at least has the compensation of being potentially without the encumbrance of notation. I suspect that quite a few readers of this list may be in that position - which would explain why not many could respond when asked what method of notation they used. The appeal of software can be compelling for all sorts of reasons. But perhaps this is not the place to discuss the socialogical aspects of live- versus canned music. Or is it? Paul Turner Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:30 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA26935; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:32:35 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA25915 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id AAA28660; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:32:32 -0700 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:32:32 -0700 Message-Id: <199610260330_MC1-B5D-86C0@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu