Notation for Live coding

• in order to play e.g. tidal cycles live with pre-written material or record a written track it might be helpful to have some notation of the coarse temporal sequence (apart from experimentation)
• this is an experiment on some notation
• file naming ".nan" short for "not a notation"

requirements

• note instruments played with its key parameters
• note temporal sequence (start and end of instruments/channels, pauses and timing)
• make sequence easyly visible
• make notation work in paper/handwritten and text-editor format

elements

• channel number as int "1, 2, 3, .."
• turn on/off chanel as "+" and "="
• params and values by their names as string and numbers
• temporal flow by signs for
  • short pause "#"
  • imediate follow up "->"
  • group/temporal proximity/musical proximity by tabbed indentation (only used in conjunction with "##" and "->"
  • long pause "###"
  • hush/end of track by "<-->"
  • use seconds annotation for pauses if needed like "# 10s" or "### 50s"
  • maybe use blank lines for visual clarity

example

[channel/orbit | I/O | params | value/comment]

| 1 | + | gain | 0.4 >> 0.7 fade in

| ## | 2 | + | fast 2 | not used

| -> | 3 | = | gain | 0.4 >> out

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open questions

• can this notation work as a meta language which can be used as a makro to autmatically play a track?
• can I find variants of the notation which are more graphic -> such as graphb theory notation??

NEXT steps

• test with GCB tracks (live and recording)