Contemporary Dance Animation Studies: A blog which shall record my observations and discoveries in emergence, spontaneous-order, collective intelligence, complex adaptive systems and cybernetics. Using time and [virtual 3D] space as the medium, I shall be exploring thresholds of abstraction in the human form and the potential of emotion in abstract animated forms.
"If the primary stuff of music is sound, which I believe, then notation, no matter how ordinary or idiosyncratic, is no more than a representation of the real thing.
Furthermore a description of notation such as this is a symbolic representation of a symbolic representation - twice removed from reality."
Lejaren A. Hiller, Jnr
[sourced from John Cage's Notations (link to PDF of book)]
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Labels: notation
Notation as a Tool of Thought - pdf
This guy won an award for this lecture.
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Labels: algorithms, code, notation
As I shall be choreographing motion, I feel it necessary to research what forms of notation for movement already exist.
Here are some links:
MovementWriting
Movement Notation - with free lesson upon sign-up.
Labanotation
- Laban Software
Action Stroke Dance Notation - brilliant codes for notating dance. Extensive descriptions and tutorials.
Benesh:
Benesh Open Source
Benesh main site
- Benesh Notation tutorial
And here's a brilliant thesis by Dr. Royce Neagle that appears to have extensive research in applying notation to animation or digital format:
Emotion by Motion: Expression Simulation in Virtual Ballet - pdf
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Labels: choreography, code, notation
