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Interface as ScoreJamie Bullock
Birmingham Conservatoire
Simon Emmerson Sentences (1991)
Simon Emmerson Sentences (1991)
Jean-Claude Risset Mutations (1969)
Jean-Claude Risset Mutations (1969)
“One of my early desires as a musician was to sculpt and organize directly the sound material, so as to extend compositional control to the sonic level - to compose the sound itself, instead of merely composing with sounds”
Jean-Claude Risset
Music N (1957 - )
Music N (1957 - )
UNIT GENERATORS
Music N (1957 - )
UNIT GENERATORS
CONNECT THEM UP
Music N (1957 - )
UNIT GENERATORS
CONNECT THEM UP
CONTROL PARAMETERS
Max (1988 - )
Max (1988 - )
Max (1988 - )
The Challenge
The Challenge
Functionality of Max
The Challenge
Functionality of Max
Musician-Centred Design
System Model
System Model
System Model
User Model
“If your program model is nontrivial, it's probably not the user model.”
Joel Spolsky
“A learnable UI is one where users can make a mental model of it easily”
Dan Saffer
“Beware the Turing Tar Pit where everything is possible, but nothing of interest is easy”
Alan Perlis
What do musicians think?
“The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self”
Stravinsky
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity”
Mingus
Notation has evolved...
Which of these is adequate?
Which of these is adequate?
Which of these is adequate?
Which of these is adequate?
Uh?!
Solutions...
Ladder of Abstraction
Ladder of Abstraction
Abstract common use cases
Abstract common use cases
Top-down approach
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Abstract Sound
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Abstract Sound
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Abstract Sound
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Abstract Sound
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Abstract Sound
Abstract Semantics
Abstract Semantics
Abstract Notation
Abstract Notation
Abstract Structure
Abstract Structure
IanniX
IanniX
AudioMulch
AudioMulch
Integra Live
Integra Live
Long way to go...
Long way to go...
Notation
Long way to go...
Notation
Score
Long way to go...
Notation
Score
Program
Long way to go...
Notation
Score
Program
Interface
Long way to go...
Notation
Score
Program
Interface
Language
Long way to go...
Notation
Score
Program
Interface
Language
Semantics
Long way to go...
Notation
Score
Program
Interface
Language
Semantics
Visualisation
Long way to go...
Notation
Score
Program
Interface
Language
Semantics
Visualisation
Thanks!
Jamie Bullockhttp://integralive.org/software
http://jamiebullock.com@jamiebullock
