- From: Austin Oting Har <austinotinghar@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:22:25 +1100
- To: public-music-notation@w3.org
- Cc: Barnaby Brown <siubhal@gmail.com>
- Message-ID: <CALHSCOYdF8qfK+Wm4tyUX=Dc+7uNKvS_NLW5FtO1NdS64x0Yug@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Members of the Music Notation Community Group, I hope this enquiry finds you all well. I write to you from Sydney Conservatorium of Music, as a collaborator of Barnaby Brown (CC'd) from Cambridge University, regarding our search for a professional font designer for a new set of music notation symbols. We are looking for someone to help us develop the font for new techniques that we have been developing for the ancient Greek aulos, the instrument of Greek tragedy (~400-500 BCE). This font would be standardised and contain everything that a composer needs to notate different vibrato types and a timbral transition. These techniques are explained and demonstrated by Barnaby in the videos below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiH1FxR3Lb0 <https://l.messenger.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DMiH1FxR3Lb0&h=AT1WPAxKuzDyf-Ve4e4_vFaFbaBPVbeHVs6P8bOdpCklS0suUl9AUcT-rJB6V9PhskfpGRzc48SJ3OkduygYf25ZQXB9JhKKMKkm79Apr1p6Utm0u-LUko7TBxuR5valrPODLE5m> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFQrtazhX1A <https://l.messenger.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DFFQrtazhX1A&h=AT1WPAxKuzDyf-Ve4e4_vFaFbaBPVbeHVs6P8bOdpCklS0suUl9AUcT-rJB6V9PhskfpGRzc48SJ3OkduygYf25ZQXB9JhKKMKkm79Apr1p6Utm0u-LUko7TBxuR5valrPODLE5m> Would anyone in this community have advice for how to get the font into a strong shape, so that composers and researchers of all levels can use it? And would anyone happen to know of a skilled vector graphic designer or calligrapher who would be willing to help us in the development of this font? We have been experimenting with Glyphr but are not too familiar with that world. How glyphs are assigned lie outside our current skill-set: it would be great to assign the fully-developed set of glyphs to an unassigned range, so they could be included in future releases of fonts like Bravura. Complex techniques, namely accelerating/decelerating vibrato and increasing/decreasing presence will require a professional vector graphic designer, or calligrapher, to ensure that the different vibrato symbols are clearly part of one family. I look forward to hearing from you! Warm regards, Austin
Received on Thursday, 26 November 2020 10:04:15 UTC