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16/7/2024

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​25 years ago, in the last millennium, we created Igor Engraver, a revolutionary music notation software. To promote our work, we printed t-shirts that showcased our dual perspectives: the musician's view and the developer's view. On one side of the t-shirt, we had beautifully printed sheet music titled "Your View." On the other side, titled "Our View," we displayed a piece of code—a higher-order function for creating a transposer function in Common Lisp.

Fast forward to today, as I embark on revivifying these ideas as the open source project "FrankenScore: a Body Resurrected", I suddenly remembered those t-shirts and the key they held to a general pitch representation covering not only diatonic and chromatic but also microtonal music and its transposition. I recalled that I had kept one of these t-shirts.

After searching through my entire flat, I finally found it at the bottom of my laundry basket. Remarkably, the quality of the print has survived 25 years! I took a photo of the t-shirt and fed it into ChatGPT, leading to a fruitful conversation about the ideas behind and generality of this pitch representation.

Thus: document your ideas in whatever way you want - even on t-shirts. Twenty-five years later, if the fabric and print are good enough, they may become the foundation stones on your journey of ... developmental retribution? ;)
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Ah, well. I guess it's inevitable.

10/7/2024

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FrankenScore - a Body Resurrected

1/7/2024

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​If I were to revive my old project Igor Engraver, it would totally be called FrankenScore - a Body Resurrected.
  • It would be open source.
  • It would use a client/server model allowing server cloud hosting.
  • It would use Clojure rather than Common Lisp.
  • It would use JavaFX with Skia rather than QuickDraw GX.
  • It would be cross-platform, not just for Pre-X Mac OS.
  • It would consist of a minimal, extremely efficient core augmented with plugins.
  • It would have an API allowing for third-party plugins (including paid ones).

But do I want to go down that path? Vestigia nulla retrorsum is, after all, an excellent motto, as Moina Mathers well knew.

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Ooloi is a modern, open-source music notation software designed to handle complex musical scores with ease. It is designed to be a flexible and powerful music notation software tool providing professional, high-quality results. The core functionality includes inputting music notation, formatting scores and their parts, and printing them. Additional features can be added as plugins, allowing for a modular and customizable user experience.​


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