[Emsan-l] EMSAN database structure proposal

[lonce wyse]

Gentlemen,

    I can't help thinking of the some of the other performance contexts 
that people have producing music in.
A significant proportion of sonic artwork these days does not have a 
fixed duration. Either it varies, or is "infinite" (running continuously 
as an installation, for example).
    This also leads to related issues about work that exists in the 
context of dance, video, the web, or installations with other kinds of 
objects and processes. I know it seems to open a Pandora's box, but it 
might be beneficial to identify some of these as categories rather than 
lump everything in to a free-text "other" field. An audience-interactive 
sound sculpture is such a different beast from a 64-channel work 
diffused in a concert hall and again from a Pauline Oliveros type of 
performers=listeners meditation. It seems like the structure of the 
database could and should reflect some of the basic paradigms composers 
are working in regularly now.

Best,
           - lonce

Battier Marc wrote:
> Le 6 janv. 2010 à 17:14, Kevin Austin a écrit :
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>> For the duration of the work, you may wish to consider the format of
>>
>>  00 : 00 : 00    (h : m : s)
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>> or
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>>  00:00:00.000   (h:m:s.000)
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>> This is a common format in some software, and avoids the use of the non-standard quotation marks 
>> X: 5'19"; Y: 4'38"; Z: 3'53"
>> which have two Unicode codes (U+0027 (39) and U+0022 (34)), and (U+2018 (8216), U+2019 (8217) and U+201C (8220), U+201D (8221)).
>>
>> This is a kind of complexity that in my experience, you may wish to avoid.
>>     
> Absolutely. Thanks Kevin. It would then be expressed as: X: 00:05:19, but it would probably be easy to convert it back to 5'19" in some user display format. So it brings the question of data specification as separate from data display, which shouldn't really be a problem.
>
> Any further thoughts on that?
>
> Marc
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