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Re: Music Notation symbols for loops?
Another one of my posts referring to age-old discussions - if something
has already been said and I missed that, sorry.
First of all, the target audience of the score seems to be relevant for
me: is that score for a conductor, tonmeister etc. (who doesn't play the
piece, but needs to know how it will sound with the loops) or for a
performer (who needs to know which device-operation steps he needs to
take to make it sound the way the composer wanted it)?
As I'm in the process of writing stuff for musicians to perform from a
score using e.g. and EDP or Möbius, here's what I though up:
One staff: the things the musician plays on his instrument:
another staff: the things he does with his looper. As e.g. for an EDP,
you typcially only perform one action at a time, this can be reduced to
one line (with crosses for short press, squares for long press, and
normal heads for duration-dependent stuff -> sus), and simply put a
letter describing the function on top of it ("R" for record, "O" for
overdub etc.). Another approach could be to have a normal five-line
system and assign the buttons to pitches (e.g. low C: record, low D:
overdub etc.). As for readability of both these approaches, I'm still
not decided (unless the performer would use bass pedals to control his
looper, then it would perfectly make sense to notate that as normal
pitches and map it to his preferred set of function->key assignments,
something which the drum map feature in the DAW of your choice can
easily do).
For continuous values, you could use standard dynamics notation for the
loop volume, and either the same or percent values in text for feedback.
A third staff then could show what the loop that's playing right now
sounds (perhaps use different note heads for reverse notes?). This would
only work properly in cases where we don't have gazillions of overdubs
in a non-rhythmic fashion, obviously - but if you have, say, a short
riff, where you then overdub a short snippet of a note and then
halfspeed that, that would work.
And finally, as I'm still in that thought process - any additional input
here is most welcome!
Rainer
Buzap Buzap schrieb:
I was wondering: are there any commmon, modern music notation symbols for
notating loops?
Any suggestions?
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