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- Date: Sunday, 13 Dec 1992 01:55:46 CST
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- Subject: Re: NeXT Music software???
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- Hello -
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- Came in late to this thread, but just wanted to offer some old information.
- In the premiere issue of NeXTWORLD there was a three page article about CCRMA
- and their use of NeXT's. A small section of that article described "Nutation",
- by Glendon Diener (a CCRMA grad student). For those of you who don't have acc
- ess to that copy of NeXTWORLD, I will transcribe some of the description:
-
- "Diener has created a music notation program that he calls Nutation...Basically
- , Nutation is an object-oriented visual programming language with which compose
- rs can write musical scores in an hierarchical, or layered, fashion....With
- Nutation, the composer can layer the elements, or objects, of a score (the staf
- f, clef, notes, and so on) on top of one another...The flexibility of a hierarc
- hical structure allows a composer to more easily shift or duplicate individual
- objects or groups of objects in a musical score. At the same time, it allows t
- he NeXT computer to immediately play any part of the emerging composition."
- -Article by Laura Fredrickson & Thierry Castro NeXTWORLD vol 1 no 1
-
- I have no idea if this application is extant or, if it is, if CCRMA is still ma
- intaining it. Just thought I'd post the info.
-
- -Tom Nawara
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