• Corpus ID: 5924364

The SmOKE Music Representation, Description Language, and Interchange Format

@inproceedings{Pope1992TheSM,
  title={The SmOKE Music Representation, Description Language, and Interchange Format},
  author={Stephen Travis Pope},
  booktitle={ICMC},
  year={1992}
}

• S. Pope
• Published in ICMC 1992
• Computer Science

The Smallmusic Object Kernel (SmOKe) is an object-oriented representation, description language and interchange format for musical parameters, events, and structures. The author believes this representation, and its proposed linear ASCII description, to be well-suited as a basis for: (1) concrete description interfaces in other languages, (2) specially-designed binary storage and interchange formats, and (3) use within and between interactive multimedia, hypermedia applications in several application domains. The textual versions of SmOKe share the terseness of note-list-oriented music input languages, the flexibility and extensibility of “real” music programming languages, and the non-sequential description and annotation features of hypermedia description formats. This description defines SmOKe’s basic concepts and constructs, and presents examples of the music magnitudes and event structures. The intended audience for this discussion is programmers and musicians working with digitaltechnology-based multimedia tools who are interested in the design issues related to music representations, and are familiar with the basic concepts of software engineering. Two other documents ([Smallmusic 1992] and [Pope 1992]), describe the SmOKe language, and the MODE environment within which it has been implemented, in more detail.