Re: [oddmusic] Video: Graphic scores by grade schoolers

The scores look like the ones we tried to sing at the end of the 2009
oddmusic convergence.

Whatever happened to the audio of that ?? - it would make great source
material.

Chris

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Jacob Barton <udderbot@gmail.com> wrote:

> VIDEO:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZjuEaYGglc
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> This fall, ODDMUSIC-UC was invited to a University of Illinois Saturday Art
> School class as guest artist. We taught a workshop called "The Sound
> Visual
> Connection", which brought together several ways of doing music and visual
> art non-separately.
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> We played the students music they hadn't heard before, and they drew
> sketches they hadn't drawn before. We listened to the marching band
> warming
> up outside the window, and performed Andrew's *Miniatures for Two
> Otonalists
> * in a bout of oddmusical evangelism. Then, a visit to the computer lab
> for
> making graphic computer-music scores with HighC. Finally, udderbot making!
> And circle games.
>
> I want to put in a plug for HighC <http://highc.org/history.html>. It's a
> beautifully designed, light-weight, elegant program which enables one to
> make graphic scores. Time is on the horizontal axis, and pitch on the
> vertical axis. Different timbres appear as different colors; amplitudes
> are
> represented by line thickness. Pitch is by default on a continuum
> (microtonal in the broadest sense). The whole thing costs 30 Euros (we
> used
> the demo for our class, but if you're looking for an Xmas present for
> Oddmusic…)
>
> Following a brief introduction to the program, students were given only *10
> minutes* to make a score lasting between 12 and 30 seconds. I arranged the
> results into this slideshow, which gives a peek into the variety attainable
> with this program, as well as the variety of each student.
>
> http://oddmusicuc.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/making-graphic-scores-is-easier-than-ever/
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