The Notation Of Time
Spring 1985: published in Contact magazine No. 29
An open letter to musicologists
February 1999: published on my first web site
Inherited Problems and a Proposed Solution
February 2002:
an update of The Notation of Time
commissioned as an YNEZ lecture (initiative Curtis Roads), and delivered at Create, Department of Music, UCSB, California
A Transcription of Curtis Roads’ Sonal Atoms
Summer 2002: commissioned by Curtis Roads
Developing Traditions of Music Notation and Performance on the Web
December 2002:
includes a description of the concepts involved in the transcription of Sonal Atoms
Wedelmusic Conference, Fraunhofer Institute, Frankfurt, Germany.
On Being Invisible
April 2009:
An interview with Paul Roberts about my work as Stockhausen’s copyist 1974-2000.
On Cursors
May 2018:
A preface and two applications written while thinking about cursors.
January 2019:
An analysis.
Tick-based Timing
April 2021: A tick is a quantum of time used in music notation and its performance.
This essay further develops the ideas first presented in
Retrospective 2024
October 2024: An updated English version of an Ex Machina talk and workshop given, in German, at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, Germany on 4th July 2024.
In Defence of Literacy — Two Types of Time
December 2024: This is a rewritten version of a text that was originally sent to the
Essentia Foundation in May 2023 for possible publication. (It was politely rejected.)
This version rescues the essential points, while
restricting the argument more to my own experience.