Yep, currently part of an exhibition of his work on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. There’s also a superb video composition where there’s four simultaneous excerpts of music in film playing simultaneously.

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There was an amazing exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art in Melbourne in 2017 dedicated to notation called the Score: https://artguide.com.au/the-score
Well worth looking for reviews with images.


In the city where I live there is an three days event in memory of Bogusław Schaeffer and as a part of this event I was performing using tool which was inspired by his “Symfonia - Muzyka Elektroniczna” and its graphical sheet so it might be interesting for some: http://firmanty.com/scultura/
Graphical objects were lifted from the sheet and when creating samples I used guidelines from sheet. I tried to use tools with capabilities close to what was available when this Symphony was composed so I used moog grandmother + ring modular for most of the sounds (only two of them are using digital reverb and granular synthesis).
Source code is here https://github.com/kfirmanty/scultura if anyone would like to add new symbols to the tool or maybe new samples.

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The band SUMAC just posted their bass player Brian Cook’s notation for a song from their upcoming album:

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very interesting topic. Are there any known notation examples that use 3D objects in some way?

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What type of software do you guys use for graphic/experimental music notation?
I’m thinking something like Illustrator + Sibelius/Finale should do the trick, but I’m wondering if there’s something on iPad pro that could work with the pencil and all.

i love graphic scores our group did the Ligeti piece pictured above on Ciat Lonbarde Instruments
This is the dress rehearsal

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Horatiu Radulescu

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Stripsody (1966), Cathy Berberian

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Pen/pencil/ink + paper seems to be the most effective software so far.

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I am made a set of drafting template for writing the score of Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri’s piece untitled | nº5

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I’ve since started learning Illustrator, and it works great for my needs. I know pencil
/ink and paper is probably the best way to do it, but I was looking for a software solution as my handwriting is, well, shite…

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I use both/all.
The score for “Permanent Labor” was first hand-drawn, and later laid out in Illustrator for printing:

Permanent_Labor_Book.pdf (1008.7 KB)

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tikz!

https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgf/releases/download/3.1.5b/pgfmanual.pdf

[ed] and holy crap, i just discovered you can embed lilypond in latex. that’s that

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/usage/latex

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not sure whether this was posted before

Beautiful work! Reminds me of Oskar Fischinger’s early film strips, just a bit.

Short article about graphic notation with sketches from composer Samuel Freeman.

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Such an intersting topic… thanks for that! :slight_smile:

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This is not new, but I don’t think it’s been posted: David Hall’s The art of visualising music

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