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Abstract

Digital Orchestration (DO) has become a common practice to create music for film and television. Thanks to technological advances, DO has provided composers with cost- efficient, accessible, and flexible tools, allowing them to create high-quality scores entirely from their computers. Despite the positive aspects, these kind of procedures in composition introduce new challenges in resources, workflow and digital tasks, one of which is specifically the MIDI sequencing process. Primarily computer-directed, this ‘inserting notes’ process is not well-aligned with composers’ workflow in sheet music writing: it does not take advantage of common music writing techniques for melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic material, making it a time-consuming task not related to the music creation process itself. This project aims to bridge the gap between MIDI sequencing process and composers’ approach to music writing by creating NoteletHarmony, a standalone application for MIDI processing that incorporates these common writing techniques, specifically harmonization techniques, directly into the DO workflow. The application works for any of the DAWs with MIDI routing capabilities used by professionals in film and television scoring, and has proven to be useful for MIDI mock- up processes by optimizing MIDI sequencing task times, and as a tool for computer-assisted composition by facilitating experimentation with music writing techniques.

Publication Date

7-1-2025

Campus

Valencia (Spain) Campus

Keywords

application; MIDI processing; digital orchestration; MIDI mock-up; computer- assisted composition

NoteletMusic: A MIDI processing application for integrating common music writing practices into the Digital Orchestration workflow.

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