(22-03-2023, 09:12 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.a. Map each character to a specific pitch or note.
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c. Map the length of a word to note duration (shorter words have shorter durations, longer words have longer durations).
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a. Group consecutive characters in a word and treat them as notes that form a chord.
Thanks for these suggestions!
If each character represents a note, and the characters in a word form a chord together, and duration is based on the length of a word, then it seems to follow that two attributes of a chord -- (1) how many notes are in it and (2) its duration -- would always increase and decrease together. So it might be worth decoupling those two parameters in the interest of variety. That would mean interpreting some element in the script as "note class" and some other element as "duration."
I'm toying with the idea of interpreting "curves" and "lines" as note-class indicators, and final flourishes (like the ones that distinguish EVA [n] and [r]) as duration indicators. Which notes are sounded could perhaps be determined by transitions between clusters of curves and lines, e.g., EVA [chaii] = ccc\\\ = notes 3 and 6 of a scale sounded together. Then EVA [chair] and [chain] could represent that same chord at two different durations. Extending this scheme to other characters such as [o] and [d] might be tricky, though.