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