Transcript Art of collaboration

The Rubato
Collaboratory
for Music
Guerino Mazzola U Minnesota & Zürich
Gérard Milmeister U Zürich
Karim Morsy TU München
Florian Thalmann U Bern
www.rubato.org
Rubato®: NEXTSTEP (Guerino Mazzola, Oliver Zahorka),
OS X (Jörg Garbers), Java (Stefan Göller, Stefan Müller)
Art of collaboration is characterized by
1. the flow of a distributed identity
2. that is built on gestural communication
3. within a collaborative space (collaboratory)
Art of collaboration is characterized by
1. the flow of a distributed identity
2. that is built on gestural communication
3. within a collaborative space (collaboratory)
chick-sent-me-high-ee
• Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
is being described as „being completely involved in
an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time
flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows
inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.“
Jazz improvisation as flow:
„...the music will work itself“
„...goes into autopilot“
„...stream of consciousness“
B..J. Kenney M. Gellrich: Improvisation. In: R. Parncutt and G.E. McPherson (eds.) The science and
psychology of musical performance. Creative Strategies for teaching and
learning. New York: OUP 2002
Flow
Flow is typical in jazz as a distributed identity.
Listen a moment to flow in the Geisser-MazzolaKato-Saga quartet
Live at Airegin (Yokohama),
ayler records aylDL-056
Yuki Saga, voc.
Takayuki Kato, egt.
Heinz Geisser, perc.
Guerino Mazzola, p.
Live at
Airegin
Yuki Saga
Takayuki Kato
Heinz Geisser
Guerino Mazzola
Art of collaboration is characterized by
1. the flow of a distributed identity
2. that is built on gestural communication
3. within a collaborative space (collaboratory)
Gestures
Cecil Taylor
The body is in no
way supposed to get
involved in Western
music.
I try to imitate on
the piano the leaps
in space a dancer
makes.
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Feynman
Circuit
Facts
Fourier‘s Formula fF(t) =  n an ei2nFt
Fourier‘s Ballet
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2F
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time
space
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space
The Oniontologie of Embodiment
Facts
Processes
Gestures
Axis of Embodiment
Gesture
Process
disembodiment
&
schematization
Fact
evaluation
&
dissection
Art of collaboration is characterized by
1. the flow of a distributed identity
2. that is built on gestural communication
3. within a collaborative space (collaboratory)
Computer scientist Bill Wulf defines (1989):
”A Collaboratory is a 'center without walls' in which the
nation's researchers can perform their research
• without regard to geographical location,
• interacting with colleagues,
• accessing instrumentation,
• sharing data and computational resources,
• and accessing information in digital libraries.”
The Rubato Composer Space
Gesture
Process
Fact
Composer Layer
Programming
Reusage
Code
Information
Conceptualization
Forms
Denotators
Knowledge = ordered access to information
Experiments
Hypotheses
Theory
Cognition = systematic extension of knowledge
Expressiveness
Composition
Score
Representation = avg unfolding of cognition
Programming
Reusage
Code
Information
Conceptualization
Forms
Denotators
Knowledge = ordered access to information
how to
represent
grace notes?
e.g. in
MuseData
Embellishments
Schenker analysis
GTTM
Composition
?
Nodify
score
macroscore
Flatten
Note
node
macroscore
Note
onset
—
pitch
loudness
–
Ÿ
duration
—
Experiments
Hypotheses
Theory
Cognition = systematic extension of knowledge
presto® (Atari) 1988 -
OrnaMagic
http://tamw.atari-users.net/presto.htm
grid of translations  grid diagram of morphisms
f2
f1
180o
translation
Translations
M.C. Escher: depth
Morphisms
M.C. Escher: sky and water
Expressiveness
Composition
Score
Representation = avg unfolding of cognition
Rubato® Composer: Gérard Milmeister, Karim Morsy, Florian Thalmann,
Carlos Agon, Moreno Andreatta, Yun-Kang Ahn (IRCAM)
Pierre Boulez
The Rubato Composer Space
Gesture
Process
Fact
Composer Layer
Programming
Reusage
Code
Information
Conceptualization
Forms
Denotators
Knowledge = ordered access to information
Experiments
Hypotheses
Theory
Cognition = systematic extension of knowledge
Expressiveness
Composition
Score
Representation = avg unfolding of cognition