This sounds very interesting to me and I'd like to see the results of your work. I don't have any plans in the near future related to Music + Markup, so I can't be of any use for your project except that I have some musical education and quite a lot of experience with Cocoon and probably will be able to provide some feedback or other hints on implementation.
Regards, Konstantin Piroumian [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Mark Leicester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, > > I have just 'assembled' a Cocoon[1] generator for MIDI files. This component > takes a MIDI file as its source and then generates an XML representation of > the file in XMidi. XMidi was developed several years ago by Peter Loeb. I > was looking for an excuse to develop a Cocoon component and I stumbled > across his site[2] and his source code for converting MIDI into a DOM > representation. I converted his implementation to SAX. Peter's code seems to > have lain untouched for some time and is released under the MIT license[3]. > > My plans are to: > 1. Implement a MIDI serializer (Peter Loeb's code includes an XMidi to MIDI > converter also) so that round trips are possible. > 2. Create some XMidi to SVG transformers so that graphical (e.g. Western > musical notation, or Schenkerian analysis perhaps!) representations of MIDI > files can be rapidly generated. > 3. Create some transformers to do some amusing musical transformations of > the XMidi, e.g. inversion, retrograde etc. > > I realise that MIDI format provides very little presentation information > thus limiting the scope of my second aim, but this could well provide the > start of something that encompasses other XML formats for music (such as > NIFF XML, MusicML, or perhaps a new markup for music). > > Does anyone else on the Cocoon list have an interest in wrestling with the > mismatch between markup and music? > > [1] http://cocoon.apache.org/ > [2] http://www.palserv.com/XMidi/ > [3] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html > > Cheers, > Mark Leicester > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
