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}
}