It has now been well over a year since I composed any music. I recently sold some music equipment and have plans to turn back towards the computer since I now own a laptop. The Korg nanoSeries is of great interest to me. I think they will serve as an excellent portable performance setup.
To help with my push back into music I would like to revisit the piano. In a few weeks I intend on purchasing a digital piano. My hope is begin composing completely on the piano and then pursuing MusicXML as a means to render composed works in a format ready for live performance via the laptop with midi controllers. The point of MusicXML is to create an open platform for my music. With the idea being that the music notation would be shared in a digital format with instructions for how to perform the piece. With the samples being the “unique” factor. The hope would then be to build up a community which performs works by other community members.
I feel that MusicXML can be extended to handle the specific exception which electronic music brings to composed music which MIDI and simple notation cannot handle. Very similar to the way that special notations have had to be invented to handle Scratch Notation by Turntablists. Of course MusicXML can easily be converted to MIDI and notation allowing potential performers to ignore recommendations by the original composer and interpret the piece as they wish.
This is all currently in the concept stage and not much has been done regarding the application of it. I’m honestly not even positive that MusicXML can handle what I want, which may require me to make some sort of derivative form of MusicXML along with a web driven converter.
later,
-junc
