Does any one know a good way to mock up aleatoric notation in Dorico 6?
I have been using Aleabox for the notation its self, but I am not sure if there is a way to mock up the sound. and I was curious to as what other people were doing.
I would love to know what people do!
thanks!
Hi @chip715, as always it would be helpful to have a short Dorico file example, to see what you have (since there are many different way to visualise aleatoric music, and it influences how it should be played back).
You will need to find a sample library that has special effects of random noise. There are quite a few; but it will depend on what instruments you are scoring.
I don’t think there is a way to make Dorico play an aleatoric box. By its nature, it’s something where notation is just a trigger for many possible recreations.
But yes, maybe they can add a random generator, maybe with controllable random freedom, where the given raw of notes is the basis of a computer-generated improvisation. But then, it should also adjust the length of the sequence on all the staves.
I remember when I and a friend used the random music generator M by Intelligent Music for a public performance. They cut us off the power after a few minutes.
Paolo
If you’re working in the zone of “ordinary” kinds of instrumental sounds simply not predetermined by the composer rather than “random noises,” I can offer some thoughts about an obvious “(2nd?) cousin” kind of jazz project.
During the pre-vax days of pandemic lockdown a jazz musician who had been very important to me for decades died. I was compelled not only to write a big band chart (my first in decades) with a piano and tenor sax feature as a memorial, but to make a playback version begun as a duplicate (would’ve been a flow in Dorico, though I was still using Finale then) which contained “improvised” solos and traded 8s/4s/2s. I even entered the entire piano and bass parts to sound as live improvised comping might, then sent it to a drummer friend who recorded a track to layer in.
Kind of an odd, emotionally driven thing to do in our shared global isolation — and one that I would never send out into the world as the version, of course — but I didn’t fight the creative urge.
You could, I suppose, make a flow with a version in which you enter in for the aleatoric part(s) some realization that appeals to you. But what would its purpose be? Just to get a sense of the piece, or to share with conductor/performers? The risk, of course, is that sharing it with performers might inadvertently send the message that it’s an exemplar rather than just an example. But smart ones would know better, so maybe not an issue.
These thoughts may all be quite obvious and unhelpful. 