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In contrast, Aaron has been developing notation based on combining the information of multiple staves into one in his Second String Quartet (2010): “This one was quite a big leap for me, notationally (emerging out of an attempt to take my multi-stave, multi-parametric tablature notation from earlier works and condense all the relevant x/y/z axis motion onto a single stave, hence the colours). “The score was made primarily using Adobe InDesign. The background layer of all the metrical information and the basic staff layout was generated first in Finale (again with the same precision about bar widths and such) and then exported as a pdf. The bow and finger movement information itself was all done with InDesign. I made an initial set of templates for all of the possible hand positions, finger spacings, bow pressures, etc, plus templates (swatches, in Adobe lingo) for all of the possible transitions between states, and then those were copied and pasted and stretched and distorted in a variety of ways. “The nice thing about the Adobe Create Suite is that all of its various software subcomponents are interlocked, so that a change in one program will be automatically updated in another. So, to take a simple example, if I changed a rhythm in Finale and then resaved the exported pdf, InDesign notices the change and updates the background ‘layer’ image in the score.”
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