Experimental music notation resources

[Zedkah]

I was taken with this …from this book

he says:
Streaming effects: certain changes occurring in continuous streams of sound may perhaps be related to models developed in catastrophe theory. Some of these changes in regime-type are illustrated in fig 9.5. One can, of course, imagine several others, especially where several dimensions of musical articulation are taken into account.

[Zedkah]

ok. put it here… but im more interested in the composition side of things. not the notation.

[prms]

Wow, thanks for sharing these, very informative wasn’t familiar with most of these composers!

Enjoying watching youtube videos of graphical notations usually as it’s easier for me to see how they translate into a temporal dimension.

Like this Xenakis “black midi”

Another Xenakis one, believe it to be more of a relation diagram than notation per se - might be wrong:

[prms]

The Treatise stuff is just gorgeous purely visual as well!

The visual style looks a bit Bauhausy, does it?

[vals]

Jani Christou - Strychnine Lady (1967)

This work belongs to Christou’s last compositional period, during which he experimented with a personal art form that involves stage performance, mythical archetypes, dramatic elements and avant-garde materials and means. At this time, he also introduced new concepts, such as metapraxis and protoperformance, in order to engage with elements of the unconscious, influenced, in particular, by the field of analytical psychology as shaped by the Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung (1875–1961).

[vals]

Jani Christou - ANAPARASTASIS III - THE PIANIST (1968)

Anaparastasis III: The Pianist was first performed in Munich in 1969, with Grigoris Semitekolo as the ‘soloist’, and was the last work Christou completed. It belongs, along with Anaparastasis I, to the cycle Anaparastases, which was left unfinished due to the composer’s unexpected death. According to the published score the piece is written for ‘soloist, conductor, instrumental ensemble (8-15 instruments and optionally four more performers ‘to reinforce vocal participation’) and continuum (3 tapes)’ (Christou, 1971). The score is also accompanied by a sketch by the composer, specifying the seating arrangement (for the performers, the conductor, the soloist, and even the audience) and the lighting.

[vals]

Jani Christou - Epicycle (1968)

[vals]

details from the score of epicycle
All the events represent scenes of everyday life and most of them seem to relate especially to Christou’s contemporary social/historical circumstances. For example, one cannot help noticing the multiple military images, which probably refer to the recent Dictatorship of the Colonels, which had commenced in Greece in 1967 and lasted until 1974.

[laborcamp]

@vals these are super cool!

Thank you all for the recent contributions! Great to see the archive expanding.

[bmoren]

play here:
http://www.galaxykate.com/apps/jazzcomposition/

source

[HHAlejandro]

if you still feel like listening… i know its been a while, the graphic score that you saw i didnt like the music to… but here is more elastic music:

[analogue01]

Tim Souster:

[randy]

related:
eContact! / Notation for Electroacoustic and Digital Media

[healthylives]

http://entirelandscapes.space/notations

And from Tibet:

[slopstream]

[stephenvit]

I think I posted about Tonebook previously. They’re doing a second edition and looking for submissions -

http://www.inpatientpress.com/blog/2018/3/12/tonebook-volume-ii-open-call-for-submissions

[vals]

Anestis Logothetis

[vals]

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

[vals]

Xenakis - Mycenae Alpha (1978)
for mono tape, composed on the UPIC system

[vals]

Xenakis, two sketches from “Voyage absolu des Unari vers Andromède” (1989)
for stereo tape, composed on the UPIC system.