Real-Time Music Notation, Collaborative Improvisation, and Laptop Ensembles

Sang Won Lee, Jason Freeman, and Andrew Collela

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper describes recent extensions to LOLC, a text-based environment for collaborative improvisation for laptop ensembles, which integrate acoustic instrumental musicians into the environment. Laptop musicians author short commands to create, transform, and share pre-composed musical fragments, and the resulting notation is digitally displayed, in real time, to instrumental musicians to sight-read in performance. The paper describes the background and motivations of the project, outlines the design of the original LOLC environment and describes its new real-time notation components in detail, and explains the use of these new components in a musical composition, SGLC, by one of the authors.

Citation

Sang Won Lee, Jason Freeman, and Andrew Collela. 2012. Real-Time Music Notation, Collaborative Improvisation, and Laptop Ensembles. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178315

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Lee2012a,
 abstract = {This paper describes recent extensions to LOLC, a text-based environment for collaborative improvisation for laptop ensembles, which integrate acoustic instrumental musicians into the environment. Laptop musicians author short commands to create, transform, and share pre-composed musical fragments, and the resulting notation is digitally displayed, in real time, to instrumental musicians to sight-read in performance. The paper describes the background and motivations of the project, outlines the design of the original LOLC environment and describes its new real-time notation components in detail, and explains the use of these new components in a musical composition, SGLC, by one of the authors.},
 address = {Ann Arbor, Michigan},
 author = {Sang Won Lee and Jason Freeman and Andrew Collela},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178315},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Real-time Music Notation, Live Coding, Laptop Orchestra},
 publisher = {University of Michigan},
 title = {Real-Time Music Notation, Collaborative Improvisation, and Laptop Ensembles},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2012/nime2012_62.pdf},
 year = {2012}
}