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Hello -

  Came in late to this thread, but just wanted to offer some old information.
In the premiere issue of NeXTWORLD there was a three page article about CCRMA
and their use of NeXT's.  A small section of that article described "Nutation",
 by Glendon Diener (a CCRMA grad student).  For those of you who don't have acc
ess to that copy of NeXTWORLD, I will transcribe some of the description:

"Diener has created a music notation program that he calls Nutation...Basically
, Nutation is an object-oriented visual programming language with which compose
rs can write musical scores in an hierarchical, or layered, fashion....With
Nutation, the composer can layer the elements, or objects, of a score (the staf
f, clef, notes, and so on) on top of one another...The flexibility of a hierarc
hical structure allows a composer to more easily shift or duplicate individual
objects or groups of objects in a musical score.  At the same time, it allows t
he NeXT computer to immediately play any part of the emerging composition."
-Article by Laura Fredrickson & Thierry Castro  NeXTWORLD vol 1 no 1

I have no idea if this application is extant or, if it is, if CCRMA is still ma
intaining it.  Just thought I'd post the info.

-Tom Nawara
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