Experimental music notation resources

[cfd90]

So I just discovered IM-OS, a “new music journal focused on improvised music, open scores in various forms like prose, graphic and action notations.”

The issues are free to download PDFs. I just started poking around the first one, and it begins with a (very digestible!) introduction to the concepts of graphical scores, and finishes with a number of reproduced free/open graphical scores.

http://im-os.net

[seqsual]

I have recently linked to together few apps to be able to “draw” with output from sequencer. Here is a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBtQqVgPBOQ - though I have to admit I was not capturing any sounds/musical result when drawing (the audio track is unrelated) – I was more interested what would happen if we start to use CV and modular synths for drawing etc… (I realise that this post might be against this forum rules, if you think it’s inappropriate, feel free to contact mods/delete it.)

[andrew]

QUEEN DESASTER - Bohemian Rhapsody on a DOT MATRIX PRINTER

[plato]

Sometimes alternatives to the status quo are there to suggest there is really no better alternative to the status quo, and sometimes when there most assuredly are better alternatives to the status quo. Music notation as it stands at this time is founded on the keyboard which is as if designed to confuse!
Reading music left to right is rhythmically awkward, everything humans do is front or back! We have to mentally translate vertical notation to horizontal keyboard, sometimes the very most basic thing is what you need to rethink, notation would be better oriented like a piano role, up and down:

[delineator]

Notation Examples in Electrophonic Music: scores for Roland Kayn’s “Diffusions for 1-4 Electrophonic Organs” (1965).

[delineator]

Electrophonic music assumes different notation solutions than “ordinary” music. Electrophonic score for Stockhausens “Study II”

[vals]

Gerhard Rühm - Leise Lied (detail)

[soysos]

WOW WOW WOW…this thread is so many things! I have a lot to go thru here. I have some sketches that were concepts I didn’t exactly use to upload here sometime. Maybe even putting it on paper is the thing to at least get it into my head to work in the background.
Just Thank You All for this amazing resource!

[mrspiral]

Hello, little brother. Good to see you here. Would it kill you to call once in a while? We worry.

Yes, this is an incredible resource and it’s inspired me to do a bit of this myself, which I haven’t done since about 1984… but the to-do list keeps on %*&!! growing…

[soysos]

Yay Mr. Spiral!

[vals]

Luc Ferrari - societe-II

[vals]

Luc Ferrari - Tete et Queue du Dragon

[timp]

FORMS – Screen Ensemble |

[xmacex]

In the MACBA serie Composing with Process episode 7.2 Goodiepal talks with Jesper Pedersen about animated notation. Two example videos are Blátt er líka fínt! and performance, and Bottleneck and it’s performance by Fengjastrútur.

Blátt er líka fínt!

[kza]

This is beautiful! Very impressive!

[zoundsabar]

Nice graphics score generation and interpretation! Beautiful work. I see they are always live on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/playmodes
And they use Processing to generate the scores, and Max to interpret them. Very cool.

[xmacex]

Ooh thanks for linking they live channel.

[xmacex]

I could listen to this forever

[cacophonic]

Vagn E. Olsson, Grid (2002)
Performance notes

Vagn E. Olsson, Grid (2002)

Graphic score

[cacophonic]

Rosaire Appel, from A Collection of See Songs (2012)