{"id":933,"date":"2009-08-24T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=933"},"modified":"2010-05-16T16:12:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T15:12:04","slug":"call-me-mister-langley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/08\/call-me-mister-langley.html","title":{"rendered":"Call Me Mister Langley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For only about the second time in five years, I&#8217;m writing something out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.well.com\/user\/bryan\/waltz.html\">conventional music notation<\/a> for a real, live musicians.  I&#8217;m trying to use a music notation program but I&#8217;m finding it a particularly frustrating experience.  First of all, there&#8217;s the learning curve you get with every new piece of software, but that&#8217;s to be expected.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s really vexed me is how the software brings the contradiction, between what makes sense to humans and what makes sense to computers, to a crisis.  I just want to write down a fairly simple succession of sounds, without any particular constant beat.  It&#8217;s simple to enter this into a MIDI sequencer and have the computer play it back without a hitch, but if I convert it straight to sheet music it will look like a jumbled mess.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it would be simple for me to write the music out by hand, and the musician could immediately understand what was going on, but the software can&#8217;t intuitively grasp concepts and becomes hopelessly confused.  It needs a regular, steady beat, and needs to know how many beats will be in each bar before it begins to fill them with notes and silences.<\/p>\n<p>This is like trying to draw parabolae with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents?id=ODpuAAAAEBAJ&amp;printsec=drawing&amp;zoom=4\">Etch-a-Sketch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For only about the second time in five years, I&#8217;m writing something out in conventional music notation for a real, live musicians. I&#8217;m trying to use a music notation program but I&#8217;m finding it a particularly frustrating experience. First of all, there&#8217;s the learning curve you get with every new piece of software, but that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}