The Rubato Collaboratory for Music Guerino Mazzola U

The Rubato Collaboratory for Music Guerino Mazzola U Minnesota & Zürich Gérard Milmeister U Zürich Karim Morsy TU München Florian Thalmann U Bern www. rubato. org Rubato®: NEXTSTEP (Guerino Mazzola, Oliver Zahorka), OS X (Jörg Garbers), Java (Stefan Göller, Stefan Müller)

Art of collaboration is characterized by 1. the flow of a distributed identity 2. that is built on gestural communication 3. within a collaborative space (collaboratory)

chick-sent-me-high-ee • Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) is being described as „being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. “ Jazz improvisation as flow: „. . . the music will work itself“ „. . . goes into autopilot“ „. . . stream of consciousness“ B. . J. Kenney M. Gellrich: Improvisation. In: R. Parncutt and G. E. Mc. Pherson (eds. ) The science and psychology of musical performance. Creative Strategies for teaching and learning. New York: OUP 2002

Flow is typical in jazz as a distributed identity. Listen a moment to flow in the Geisser-Mazzola. Kato-Saga quartet Live at Airegin (Yokohama), ayler records ayl. DL-056 Yuki Saga, voc. Takayuki Kato, egt. Heinz Geisser, perc. Guerino Mazzola, p. Live at Airegin Yuki Saga Takayuki Kato Heinz Geisser Guerino Mazzola

Art of collaboration is characterized by 1. the flow of a distributed identity 2. that is built on gestural communication 3. within a collaborative space (collaboratory)

Gestures Cecil Taylor The body is in no way supposed to get involved in Western music I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

Processes Feynman Circuit

Facts Fourier‘s Formula f. F(t) = n an ei 2 n. Ft

Fourier‘s Ballet F 2 F 3 F 4 F QED

ET-Dance Gesture time space

The Oniontologie of Embodiment Facts Processes Gestures

Axis of Embodiment Gesture Process disembodiment & schematization Fact evaluation & dissection

Art of collaboration is characterized by 1. the flow of a distributed identity 2. that is built on gestural communication 3. within a collaborative space (collaboratory)

Computer scientist Bill Wulf defines (1989): ”A Collaboratory is a 'center without walls' in which the nation's researchers can perform their research • without regard to geographical location, • interacting with colleagues, • accessing instrumentation, • sharing data and computational resources, • and accessing information in digital libraries. ”

The Rubato Composer Space Gesture Process Fact Composer Layer Programming Reusage Code Information Conceptualization Forms Denotators Knowledge = ordered access to information Experiments Hypotheses Theory Cognition = systematic extension of knowledge Expressiveness Composition Score Representation = avg unfolding of cognition

Programming Reusage Code Information

Conceptualization Forms Denotators Knowledge = ordered access to information

how to represent grace notes? e. g. in Muse. Data

Embellishments Schenker analysis GTTM Composition ! s e i h c r a r e i h ?

Nodify score macroscore Flatten Note node macroscore Note onset — pitch loudness – Ÿ duration —

Experiments Hypotheses Theory Cognition = systematic extension of knowledge

presto® (Atari) 1988 - Orna. Magic http: //tamw. atari-users. net/presto. htm

grid of translations grid diagram of morphisms f 2 f 1

180 o translation

Translations M. C. Escher: depth Morphisms M. C. Escher: sky and water

Expressiveness Composition Score Representation = avg unfolding of cognition

Rubato® Composer: Gérard Milmeister, Karim Morsy, Florian Thalmann, Carlos Agon, Moreno Andreatta, Yun-Kang Ahn (IRCAM) Pierre Boulez

The Rubato Composer Space Gesture Process Fact Composer Layer Programming Reusage Code Information Conceptualization Forms Denotators Knowledge = ordered access to information Experiments Hypotheses Theory Cognition = systematic extension of knowledge Expressiveness Composition Score Representation = avg unfolding of cognition