Cloud music? Slow real-time? An Information Symphony Philip Sheppard - Cellist & Composer TTiV What is music? How much information can notation convey? You Are Musical. Why? Why is memory connected to music? What can be learnt from the way musicians cope with huge amounts of data under duress? How about some real-time data crisis management... On a cello..? An Information Symphony Philip Sheppard - Cellist & Composer TTiV Innate musical abilities, obviously serve a massive function for development of memory, languages and meaning, so should we work harder to develop them? Is there an interpretative, almost musically ‘phrased’ layer of information that can be added to data to give it greater dimensionality & make it more meaningful, memorable? Orchestras routinely self-regulate & process huge swathes of information at first sight, in real-time, within a system in constant radical flux, by employing lookahead techniques & informed choices. How? Some Questions... In summary TTiV Music & Architecture What is music anyway? Architecture is frozen music...? TTiV Inevitability of melody What is music anyway? The Lancashire Pipes and an Indian tale TTiV Relativity of information What is music anyway? Relationships within melody TTiV Now it’s your turn... What is music anyway? Instant Minimalism TTiV 1.What is music anyway? Football clap notation TTiV I want to dance with you. I want to dance with you. I want to dance with you. I want to dance with you. I want to dance with you... What is music anyway? Phrasing & meaning TTiV Phrasing Anacrusis, Crusis & Metacrusis What is music anyway? Phrasing, interpretation & meaning TTiV Humanizing a line Phrasing data? William Hogarth’s Line of Beauty, Scale 2 ways TTiV Phrasing data? Paul Klee Pedagogical Sketchbook TTiV Abstraction & association A Harlem tale TTiV Abstraction & association A Harlem tale TTiV Perfect Pitch [aka Absolute Pitch] Your extraordinary musical brain Hyperabilities TTiV Absolute Tempo Your extraordinary musical brain Hyperabilities TTiV The Belfast study Understanding inflection Babbling & prosody Your extraordinary musical brain What you’re born with TTiV Text & numbers Melodic information Music & memory Hyperabilities TTiV Survival? Why do we have such musically efficient memory functions? Sagas, nursery rhymes, a Koran story TTiV Musical memory black boxing Mixtape sensory short circuit What is your earliest musical memory? A shaky violin A, & a Faure melody TTiV Mr Panksepp’s interesting test Other physiological responses Is this important? Why? Music & the chill factor Some chickens, a CD and a cycle of 5ths TTiV The cycle of composition Control loops on the fly How do musicians work? Creation, audiation, structural thinking, recording of information, processing & realization TTiV An Olympic task... 205 Countries in 52 hours. An endurance test for an orchestral system... TTiV x 205 An Olympic task... A whole new world... TTiV x 6000 An Olympic task... A whole new world... [Single point failure?] TTiV Research Intensive thought (not brainstorming in a group) Audiation Composition Construction Transcription Editing Testing Encoding/Programming Rendering, Notating, Printing Proofing, snagging Performance/ Interpretation/ Realisation Transmission/ Distribution An Olympic task... Creation, audiation, structural thinking, recording of information, processing & realization TTiV Troubleshooting at macro & micro level Working to absolute critical deadline Reading at sight - with 100% accuracy Zero Latency Lookahead processing Making actuarial decisions on the fly Interpreting, adapting & transmitting an absolute pulse Maintaing true relative, perfect tuning/ intonation Taking ownership of the information & adding emotional depth through phrasing & inflection Therefore rendering from static state to 4D How do musicians work? Films, SA & France, saccades and more TTiV A map... The score TTiV A rendition... 2D, scrolling 3D & 4D renditions in real-time TTiV Notation The National Anthem of Bhutan TTiV Notation Mozart Tafelmusik TTiV Notation Telemann Gulliver’s travels TTiV Notation Canonic Fugue from Henry VIII prayerbook TTiV Notation Bach Musical offering TTiV Notation George Crumb Black Angels TTiV Notation George Crumb Spiral Galaxy TTiV Notation & Codes & Ciphers BACH, DSCH, Schoenberg, Elgar, Brahms, Da Vinci ‘love delights me’ TTiV Notation, espionage & fantasy Vatican Porta code, Bishop Godwin 1638, Anthony Burgess TTiV Storyboard Notation Sergei Eisenstein & Sergei Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (1928) TTiV Contemporary sequencing Logic Studio sequencing a scene from Bobby Fischer Against the World. (Worked in real-time) TTiV A strange birthday commission... Mr Turner’s 40th TTiV The score... O Come ye from Newcastle? TTiV Innate musical abilities, obviously serve a massive function for development of memory, languages and meaning, so should we work harder to develop them? Music is a language. Isn’t language itself a form of music? Is there an interpretative, almost musically ‘phrased’ layer of information that can be added to data to give it greater dimensionality & make it more meaningful, memorable? Orchestras routinely self-regulate & process huge swathes of information at first sight, in real-time, within a system in constant radical flux, by employing lookahead techniques & informed choices. With collective consciousness. Without crashing. Why can’t my software? Some Questions... In summary TTiV Patrick - Dm/D+/ Haiti Julien - Are we nearly there yet? Alexandre’s energy Ian’s - Lidar NYSE - shares bid & offered freq Play. Run. Stop. Some mobile digital technology from 1709... (even older than the NYSE) TTiV