have you ever tried painting blind? well, if youve painted, you probably have - look at your hand, or your shirt or your pants, or the floor. you dont think thats a "painting"? well, thats up to you.. your palette might be interesting to look at, too. these accidental or byproducts of your supposed creative purpose may possibly be more interesting to me/others/you(?) than what you had originally intended to do. try putting charcoal between paper under your feet while drawing on an easel upright and seeing what types of dance moves you generate - i was nicely surprised. paint in absolutely darkness, without ever looking, and then maybe someday you will see it on display and admire it or not understand it - without knowing it was your own.
you could do the same writing music without listening! using, say, a multitrack editor's blocks as the only visual (perhaps without a waveform detail to give no hint of its contents). then, once youve finished writing, you could listen - or send it to a friend who can distribute it under some unknown pseudonym. perhaps someday you would hear it, love it or hate it, perhaps wonder who made it...
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Hyperscore
http://web.media.mit.edu/~mary/hyperscore.html
Created and developed by Morwaread Farbood
Hyperscore is a graphical computer-assisted composition program intended to make composing music accessible to users without musical training as well as experienced musicians. The software maps complex musical concepts to intuitive visual representations. Color, shape, and texture are used to convey high-level musical features such as timbre, melodic contour, and harmonic tension.
Users start by first creating simple melodies or sequences of notes. A library of predefined elements is also provided. These melodies are assigned unique colors. The user then creates a musical sketch composed of colored lines, where the motivic material generated for each line corresponds to the sequence associated with the given color. The contour and position of the line alters the pitch at which notes are played back. Hyperscore also provides users with control over tempo, dynamics, and harmony. General MIDI is used for audio output, but the addition of recording and sample-based audio is currently under development.
Hyperscore has garnered considerable acclaim for its novel and intuitive approach to computer-assisted composition. It has received international media attention and awards and has been featured in numerous news and journal publications, as well as television programs such as Scientific American Frontiers. It has also been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal, and other locations worldwide.
Hyperscore is now a commercial product and can be downloaded and purchased from Harmony Line.
The software can generate and apply different classes of automated harmonization. Hyperscore has a harmonic tension "line" that can be shaped by the user and transformed into chord progressions that are implied by the contour of the line. These progressions are then applied to the music composed by the user, which is transformed to conform to the generated harmony. The gestural elements in the harmony line imply different functional categories for the chords selected. The texture of the line in a given a sections determines the kinds of chords chosen given the functional category.
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