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Phase one: research effectiveness of graphical notation at conveying rhythm in HS students.  Hypothesis – MIDI grid is more effective than traditional notation in this specific area.

Phase two: HS novices devise alternate notation styles that depict time cycle/duration versus pitch.  I take the best few examples and make living versions of them using a combination of Quartz Composer and either a DAW like Logic or a custom PD patch (whichever works better for demonstration of the concept).

Phase three: adapt the best visualization for an art installation type use.  Maybe link up the PD patch to something that breathes like a Twitter feed, and use that to generate incoming notation data for the QC patch.

What do you think out there?  Too broad/narrow?  Hit me up on Twitter with your ideas.

Overall a good conference.  Had a great conversation with Angela Siefer of shinydoor.com on why social networking should be used and encouraged in the classroom.  She was impressed we’re going paperless this year too, which is nice.  Lots of good reactions from the show floor on Wednesday – see videos here.  Next up: graduate project time, some end of the year performance stuff for the MTers, DJing the art show, and more.  Also a top secret collab I’m not talking about may or may not be in the works.

One down, one to go.  The session today went pretty well minus a few technical hiccups.  Overall I think I got my point across, and Harmon totally rocked it out.  Thanks and kudos to those student presenters for bringing it today.  Check out the video of Harmon here.

I know, lots of people are watching some kind of sporting event right now.  Anyway, Twitter is fast becoming the preferred tool of choice for impromptu networking and promotion at conferences like eTech.  They have their own Twitter account that can push a message out to all accounts that are following it if you send it a DM.  Totally rad, and totally beyond what I’ve seen at eTech before.  I have a feeling this is going to be a big turning point for this conference.

Via Create Digital Music: the Max/MSP Full-week intensive in NYC.  This is awesome – all because of Max for Live too.  Let’s hope Max for Live grows the whole patching community, not just that for Max.