Hyperscore: A Graphical Sketchpad for Novice Composers

graphical abstractions, Hyperscore provides a visual analogue for what is happening structurally in the music as opposed to displaying musical events in procedural notation or as a set of parameters, as is often the case with other graphical composition systems. The fundamental idea of Hyperscore is that anyone can perform two key creative activities without musical training: compose short melodies and describe the large-scale shape of a piece. Providing graphical means to engage in these two activities forms the basis for Hyperscore's functionality. There have been numerous past examples of graphical computer-assisted composition systems. Many of themaresuitedforprofessionalmusicians,usinggraphicalobjectstorepresentmusicalfunctionsortweakparameters. The latter category includes "traditional" commercial applications such as Digital Performer, Cubase, and Vision--multitrack sequencers that use graphicalinputtomanipulatelow-levelparameters.The former category contains Patc...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2004
• Where: CGA
• Authors: Morwaread M. Farbood, Egon C. Pasztor, Kevin Jennings
• Keywords: CGA 2004, Computational Geometry, Graphical, Hyperscore, Musical