Picturing

Music

NOTATION UNCONTAINED

rob@kiben.net

Look at some approaches to

Graphic Scores.

Look at Inkscape as

a tool for making

graphic scores.

Hands on Inkscape

Graphic scores?

Augmented Traditional Notation

--->

non-standard/hyper-augmented

/hyper-diminished

DOTS AND LINES

THE ART OF NOISES

RUSSOLO'S INTONARUMORI

Stockhausen - elektronische studie ii

Morton Feldman

Projections and Intersections - Graph Pieces

Hans-Christoph Steiner "Solitude"

In the score, time flows from left to right. Each color represents a sample. Each sample controller has two arrays: the brighter, bigger one on top controls sample playback; and a smaller darker one at the bottom controls amp and pan. The lowest point of the sample array is the beginning of the sample, the highest is the end, and the height of the array is how much and what part of the sample to play starting at that point in time. There are between 50 and 100 voice polyphony for the samples. The height of the amp/pan array is the amp, and the y location is the pan.

Ligeti - Rainer Wehinger

Baude Cordier

George Crumb

Makrokosmos

Cage - ARIA

dark blue = jazz;  red = alto;orange = oriental; blue = baby; brown = nasal. black with a parallel dotted line = sprechstimme; black = dramatic; violet = Marlene Dietrich; yellow = coloritura; green = folk;

CAGE - Concert for Piano and Orchestra

HAUBENSTOCK-RAMATI

Stripsody - Cathy Berberian

Cornelius Cardew

Treatise 1963-67

"The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation."
- Cornelius Cardew, Treatise Handbook, p.iv col 2 pp. 2

"comprovisation"

starting point - level of ambiguity?

indeterminacy/aleatoric

temporal/pitch/harmonic/texture

non-functional?

realisation score?

"Reflection before a performance. A musical score is a logical construct inserted into the mess of potential sounds that permeate this planet and its atmosphere."

- Cornelius Cardew, Treatise Handbook, p.vii col. 2 pp.5

"A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated."

- Cornelius Cardew, Treatise Handbook

"Performance advice. Divide the musicians into those involved in dot events (percussionists and pianists?) and those involved in line events. Dot events to be exclusively soft."

- Cornelius Cardew, Treatise Handbook, p.vii col. 2 pp.4

"Remember that space does not correspond literally to time."
- Cornelius Cardew, Treatise Handbook, p.iv col 1pp.3