Looking at alternative music notation again ... a ...
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Emmanuel Oga
02/21/2021, 1:07 AMLooking at alternative music notation again ... a bit of a rabbit hole. I was excited about dodeka but after actually trying to use it and staring at it for a while I find that it lacks redundancy, everything looks like a floating rectangle.
KlavarScore looks good for piano playing.
Found a small proposal (https://fastgram.org/) that both augments and simplifies traditional notation to good effect, I think.
For guitar found this "brenna method" which uses color and shapes to add circle-of-fifths information to the fretboard.
I feel like a combination of these elements could be fused together for a visualization that could help play and understand music in different instruments.
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Emmanuel Oga
02/21/2021, 1:08 AMBTW, the world of alternative music notation is weird. It is full of people with a messiah complex that think they are misunderstood geniuses... it is a bit cringey sometimes
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Emmanuel Oga
02/21/2021, 1:09 AMI'm tempted to provide links to support my statement but better not to point fingers 🙂
Emmanuel Oga
02/21/2021, 1:11 AMmy thinking with alternative music notation is that we don't need to replace the existing methods. A lot of people approach this with a blanket list of requirements that makes it really hard to come up with something useful. See: http://musicnotation.org/systems/criteria/
Emmanuel Oga
02/21/2021, 1:14 AMI'm not necessarily interested in a method that makes it easy to write music by hand, but something to make it as convenient as possible to read music from a computer screen. My preferred metaphor is more Terminator's HUD and less pen and paper 🙂
Emmanuel Oga
02/21/2021, 1:27 AMAh there are also "numbered notation"
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wtaysom
02/21/2021, 3:18 AMNot complete in itself, the tonnetz is at least a marginally useful idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz.
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Emmanuel Oga
02/21/2021, 4:38 AMthx william, is there a good resource for reading about tonnetz apart from wikipedia by any chance?
Emmanuel Oga
02/21/2021, 4:39 AMI'm also plannign to explore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_table_note_layout which is linked on that tonnetz article
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wtaysom
02/22/2021, 3:16 AMSorry, @Emmanuel Oga this is only a side-side interest for me, so I really don't know the literature. I was overjoyed at finding the name Tonnetz after independently discovering it.
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Jack Rusher
02/22/2021, 9:09 AMI always like to see color in this context, as per Newton's pitch-color wheel and Goethe's key/color system, as there's some synaesthesia involved in my own experience of music.
https://www.tremr.com/bogdan-cvetkovic/musical-keys-and-goethes-color-wheel
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Emmanuel Oga
02/23/2021, 9:18 AMI suspect an effective usage could be way simpler: paint the notes according to the octave where they live
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