Towards an Encoding of Musical Interaction

While representing musical processes or musical scores through Markup Languages is now well established, the authors assume that there is still the need for a format to encode musical material with which a musician can interact. The lack of such a format is especially crucial for contemporary music that involves computing processes. They propose such a formal representation for composing musical scores in which some temporal properties can be interactively modified during their execution. This allows the creation of scores that can be interpreted by a performer in the same way a musician can interpret a score of instrumental music. The formal representation comes with an XML format for encoding the scores and also interfacing the representation with other types of Markup Language musical description. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2497-9.ch004