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Visual Design of Real-Time Screen Scores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2014

David Kim-Boyle
David Kim-Boyle*
Affiliation:
Sydney Conservatorium of Music. University of Sydney, Macquarie St, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
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Email: david.kim-boyle@sydney.edu.au
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Abstract

The author examines visual design considerations in the development of real-time screen scores. Such scores are shown to lend themselves particularly well to the representation of non-linear musical processes and the articulation of non-linear musical forms. The author argues that the foregrounding of such scores, through their projection for an audience and meticulous design, draws especial attention to the manner in which such non-linear processes are represented and in turn decoded by performers. While the transparency of the decoding process is shown to vary across a wide spectrum, the central role of the notational schema in works such as these is shown to align them in many ways with a broader interface aesthetics, promoting rich fields of creative and artistic enquiry.

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Organised Sound , Volume 19 , Special Issue 3: Mediation: Notation and Communication in Electroacoustic Music Performance , December 2014 , pp. 286 - 294
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© Cambridge University Press 2014 

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