Experimental music notation resources

[lazzarello]

This fancy read/write e-ink tablet called reMarkable has come to my attention. The marketing makes it look like the best thing ever. Read PDFs, write notes and annotations on them. Draw with a 4 axis pen, export to PDF…

I was thinking about this for musical notation. Is it worth $600?

[t3h]

This fancy read/write e-ink tablet called reMarkable

I used Sony ereader for a while. Mostly for reading notes when speaking during class. My experience is that these devices do promise more than they deliver. Now I’m using a combination of two moleskines and a tablet.

[timp]

Collection of Dances in Choreography Notation (1700)

Collection of Dances in Choreography Notation (1700)

[vals]

Murray Schafer, “Snowforms”

[vals]

Trevor Wishart - Vox-I

[vals]

Vladan Radovanović, Small Eternal Lake 1984

[paum]

Milan Adamčiak

Milan Adamčiak

[wheelersounds]

Just paid a visit to the New York Public Library’s temporary exhibit https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/sounding-circuits-audible-histories

Sharing for folks who can’t make it to the exhibit here in NYC; Pauline Oliveros’s personal copy of Cage’s notation for Four-6, with a note asking for her input. I’m particularly “drawn” to the children’s illustrations on the backside of the paper, which was not mentioned in the exhibit caption but seems very appropriate given their relationship.

They also had these by Varese, which are some of the first notations he made for music for magnetic tape (Deserts):

[wheelersounds]

And also these wonderful postcard text scores by James Tenney (my favorite is the Harold Budd but they’re all pretty great; please forgive the blurriness):

Have people already posted about Sarah Belle Reid’s postcard project here? I’m not a part of her Patreon but her graphic scores are pretty interesting.

[otolythe]

here’s the reading list from the sounding circuits exhibition at the NYPL. the exhibit featured some early graphic scores, but the reading list seemed like it might offer something(s) of interest too. the score below is from varèse’s “déserts”:

[hermbot]

Lovely! It’s amazing the spectrum that all of these scores can have throughout this whole thread: from practical attempts to transcribe something for the purposes of documenting it to artistic pieces themselves that exist along side the music.

[Rudbeard]

There’s a twitter account called graphical scores or something of the sort that tweets experimental music notation on a semi-regular basis. I find them more inspirational than informational, but alas.

[darwingrosse]

graphical scores

Great one! That’s “Graphic Scores” (or @GraphicScoreBot). Finally - something to make me want to look at Twitter!

[ddg]

[laborcamp]

Some example of old Tibetan music notation with distinct graphic language:

From this article:

Tibetan Musical Notation Is Beautiful

which then links to this twitter account that might be of interest to anyone who is looking at this thread:

https://twitter.com/NotationIsGreat

[bmoren]

I don’t think this has been posted yet.

Infographics show the human-like musical structure of whale songs

[caelmore]

I’m not sure what piece this is for, but I just found this in an article about Éliane Radigue while attempting to find documentation of her scores outside of the IMA Portrait documentary.

[Softscoop]

not sure if this one has been posted (on my favourite IIIIIIII topic). This Stockhausen score features a refrain printed on a clear plastic strip which can be rotated for different performances. Photo taken from the T&H publication Modern Music by Paul Griffiths

[laborcamp]

Totally amazing.
(Don’t think it’s been posted yet.)

[GoneCaving]

[caelmore]

Christian Marclay’s Manga Scroll, right? I briefly interned at the printmaking studio that produced that edition, and was fortunate to see that piece and Zoom Zoom performed by Christian Marclay and Shelley Hirsch a few years back when I was still in school.