VIDEO:: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZjuEaYGglc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZjuEaYGglc</a><br>--<br><p>This fall, ODDMUSIC-UC was invited to a University of Illinois Saturday
Art School class as guest artist. We taught a workshop called “The
Sound Visual Connection”, which brought together several ways of doing
music and visual art non-separately.</p>
<p>We played the students music they hadn’t heard before, and they drew
sketches they hadn’t drawn before. We listened to the marching band
warming up outside the window, and performed Andrew’s <em>Miniatures for Two Otonalists</em>
in a bout of oddmusical evangelism. Then, a visit to the computer lab
for making graphic computer-music scores with HighC. Finally, udderbot
making! And circle games.</p>
<p>I want to put in a plug for <a href="http://highc.org/history.html">HighC</a>.
It’s a beautifully designed, light-weight, elegant program which
enables one to make graphic scores. Time is on the horizontal axis, and
pitch on the vertical axis. Different timbres appear as different
colors; amplitudes are represented by line thickness. Pitch is by
default on a continuum (microtonal in the broadest sense). The whole
thing costs 30 Euros (we used the demo for our class, but if you’re
looking for an Xmas present for Oddmusic…)</p>
<p>Following a brief introduction to the program, students were given only <strong>10 minutes</strong>
to make a score lasting between 12 and 30 seconds. I arranged the
results into this slideshow, which gives a peek into the variety
attainable with this program, as well as the variety of each student.</p><a href="http://oddmusicuc.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/making-graphic-scores-is-easier-than-ever/">http://oddmusicuc.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/making-graphic-scores-is-easier-than-ever/</a> <br>