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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
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<head>
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<link href="about/style.css" rel="stylesheet">
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</head>
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<body>
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<div id="title"><h1>NodeScore</h1> </div><br/>
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<img src="about/chromiumlogo.png" width="30" height="30"/>
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<img src="about/nodejs-dark.png" height="30"/>
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<img src="about/ECMAScript.png" height="30"/>
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<br/><br/>
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<div class="readme">
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<h2>What is NodeScore?</h2> NodeScore is a framework to facilitate
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networked telematic ensemble performance. As a framework it uses the
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"screen score" as its paradigm. While it could be used to syncronise
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any type of telematic event/performance in this context it is aimed at
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the musical performance.
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<p> The goal of the NodeScore framework is to allow performers
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who are connected to a network via a computer/tablet/mobile device to
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syncronise to a master clock and recieve instructions, in
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realtime,from a central "conductor/director" as well as being able to
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communicate with one another.
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</p>
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<p>As performers may be geographically dispersed the technical setup
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needs to be trivial, this is why NodeScore uses the Internet browser
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as it is a cross-platform, standards compliant
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environment that will run on anycomputer without complex setup and
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installation process. All that the performers involved in a NodeScore
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performance need to do is open a browser such as Google's Chrome and
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point it to the address of the NodeScore server, login and await
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instructions that shall be displayed in the browsers window.
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</p>
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<p>The nature of these instuctions is the left to the composer, the
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only prerequisite when composing for the NodeScore framework is that
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the instructions are formatted in HTML5. This allows for the
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incorporation of a wide range of rich media content such as images,
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video, sound and animated SVG as well as simple plain text
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instructions. Any medium that can be displayed in an internet web
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browser maybe used in a NodeScore composition.
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Other features include a shared, embedded network stopwatch and a
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live-chat window to facilitate syncronisation and communication
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between partisipants in the performance.</p>
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<h2>How does NodeScore work?</h2> The control interface for
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NodeScore is a webpage displayed in an internet web browser, from this
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control page the "conductor/director" can issue the precomposed, HTML5
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formated, compositional instructions. These instrutions can be
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deployed to the ensemble as a whole or targeted at specific
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perfomers. Once the instruction is deployed by the director it is
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instantly presented in the web browser of the performer/s.
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<p>In a NodeScore performance the conductor/director also becomes
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active in the compositional process as he she decides who plays what
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material when. In this way NodeScore can be seen as an evolution of
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methods used by composers from Lutoslawski (Jeux vénitiens to Zorn
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("Cobra") amongst others, where musicians are given cues chosen by the
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director indicating certian prearranged stratagies. NodeScore however
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alows much more complex media to be incorporated in the instructions
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as well as facilitating networked telematic performances in this
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style.
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</p>
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<h2>How is this achived technically?</h2> NodeScore uses realtime web
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technologies including the node.js server software allowing serverside
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javascript as well as websockets. "Websockets" allows the server to
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push content to the clients without them requesting it first as is
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traditionally the case. <p>This has been possible in the past through a
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technique called "longpolling", though this was quite inefficient
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compatered to websockets which allow a persistant live connection
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between server and client. Through this connection the server can push
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content to the client in realtime for instant displayed in their
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browser.</p>
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<h2>Code</h2>
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<a href="https://gitorious.org/nodescore">https://gitorious.org/nodescore</a>
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<h2>Browser Compatability:</h2> This project uses some bleeding
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edge network technologies his means it will not currently work in all
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browsers, some versions of Firefox have disabled websockets for
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security reasons, also different browsers deal with CSS scaling in
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different ways for example. Recent versions of Chromium, Google Chrome or
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Firefox are recomended.
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