Hill, Patrick; Holland, Simon and Laney, Robin
(2006).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1145/1119655.1119685 |
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Abstract
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) describes a range of techniques that enable the separation, organisation and composition of various programming concerns that cannot be adequately encapsulated using the principal decomposition mechanisms available to modern programming languages.
Naturally, most AOP-related research is focussed on its application to the development of computer software. However, we believe that it is worthwhile considering whether AOP and cognate techniques might be usefully adapted as a means for an end-user to organise, represent and compose information in computer systems that support application domains in which scattering and tangling are present.
Music is notoriously rich in deeply tangled relationships. Moreover, there is no universally accepted representation of music that simultaneously represents all dimensions of interest to the composer.
In this paper we describe Aspect Oriented Music Representation, an approach to the organisation, representation and composition of musical materials based on MDSOC. Our approach extends MDSOC by adding a dynamic hyperspace, described in Section 3, and by allowing users to write detailed composition expressions using an extensible set of compositors. We introduce the concept of composition history, enabling symmetric composition to be related to joinpoints, demonstrating a way to combine symmetric and asymmetric aspect approaches.
| Item Type: | Conference Item |
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| ISBN: | 1-59593-300-X, 978-1-59593-300-3 |
| Extra Information: | The AOSD conference is the premier event for work on Aspects and is attended by the top reaearchers in the field. Of ninety-five papers submitted, twenty were accepted with an acceptance ratio of 21%.
The paper is the first to seriously establish Aspect Oriented Music Representation (AOMR). It contributes to Software Engineering by demonstrating the power of combining asymmetrical and symmetrical approaches to aspects, including the use of composition history. AOMR promises to provide an interesting perspective on whether current approaches to computer music representations, including Common Music Notation (CMN) can be improved upon. Given the history of CMN, progress in this area would be highly significant and impact strongly on the music technology industry. This conference took place in Bonn, Germany. |
| Keywords: | aspect oriented software development; music representations |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Computing |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: | 4167 |
| Depositing User: | Robin Laney |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2010 19:51 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/4167 |
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