matt

What interested me most about this task was the same thing that interests me about sound and notation.

A ‘musical’ sign on a piece of paper or a screen can both instruct us to how a sound is made or inform us of how a sonic event ’sounds’. The sign though also has a life of its own.

I wanted to make a sound the only way I new how to do this was through:

Say “sound”

I wasn’t very happy with only being able to express the literal and wanted to escape the confines of spoken english so I tried

Say “o o . ooooo” o “ttttssssss” s s s

Although amusing I don’t really like the preset speaking sounds e.g. Cindy on my computer so I tried the novelty ones:

Say -v Bubbles “o o . ooooo” o “ttttssssss” s s s

I wanted to convert text into spoken word so I used

This seemed slightly more interesting. To convert text to spoken word and save to audio file I used:

Say -v Bubbles -o “audio.aiff” -f “joe.rtf”

I’m trying to work out how to convert standard music notation now