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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.27,0:00:01.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi KQED,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.86,0:00:03.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my name is Stephen Malnowski.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.85,0:00:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me tell you what I've been making.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.98,0:00:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A while ago, when I was learning to read music,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.59,0:00:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could follow the score for a single instrument
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.83,0:00:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[violin playing]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.49,0:00:21.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much more easily than a score with many instruments.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.23,0:00:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[orchestra playing]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.49,0:00:28.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To make complex scores that were easier to read,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.89,0:00:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I condensed them by putting all the notes on a single staff,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.93,0:00:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like in piano music.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.84,0:00:39.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, this made it hard to see which instrument was playing which note.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.59,0:00:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I tried coloring the notes by instrument.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.47,0:00:46.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That worked better, but since all the note symbols were about the same size,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.35,0:00:51.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a long note for one instrument could easily be lost among shorter notes of other instruments.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.19,0:00:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The solution was to use bar graph notation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.14,0:00:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first, I drew paper scrolls by hand,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.97,0:01:02.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but later I learned how to make them with computer software.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.69,0:01:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first version, on the Atari 800, looked and sounded like this:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.76,0:01:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[electronic song plays]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.32,0:01:30.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second one, on an IBM PC, looked like this:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.63,0:01:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[harpsichord arrangement]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.12,0:02:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the years, I experimented with other ways of showing music.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.38,0:02:09.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[classical piano playing]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.42,0:02:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Beethoven's 5th Symphony]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.09,0:03:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[adagio piece]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.14,0:03:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[allegro violin]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.13,0:03:45.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Bach's Cello Suite #1]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.56,0:03:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recently a violinist told me he wanted to use my visualizations in live performance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.66,0:04:04.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I made a version of my software in which the timing of the animation is controlled with a crank.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.71,0:04:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We tried this out with the symphony orchestra.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.06,0:04:12.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It worked.