Drawing inspiration from John Cage's 'Notations', this volume features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 composers from every continent, all of whom are innovators in the art of notation. Each score is accompanied by written contributions from the artists, explaining…
"Drawing inspiration from John Cage's Notations, Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 international composers, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation. These spectacularly beautiful and fascinatingly creative visual piec…
Drawing inspiration from John Cage's 'Notations', this volume features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 composers from every continent, all of whom are innovators in the art of notation. Each score is accompanied by written contributions from the artists, explaining…
David Cline provides a detailed analysis of Morton Feldman's graphworks and how they changed the course of post-war music.
David Cline provides a detailed analysis of Morton Feldman's groundbreaking graph music and its considerable impact upon the development of post-war classical music. This book highlights the influence of contemporary art on Feldman's works and explores his relationships with Ear…
David Cline provides a detailed analysis of Morton Feldman's graph works and how they changed the course of post-war music.
This text provides the first comprehensive examination of pictographic notation. Pictographic musical notation represents the relevant instruments themselves rendered visually rather than verbally. Used most extensively in contemporary publications between the 1950s and 1980s, i…
"In the late 70s, an interdisciplinary team led by the composer Iannis Xenakis developed the compositional tool UPIC out of an effort to transform drawings into synthesized sound. Together with the Centre Iannis Xenakis, the ZKM is now addressing for the first time the genesis o…
"UPIC stands for Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu. Despite the seeming technicality of this name, this apparatus is magic. Here, it is about nothing less than the translation of visuality, in the form of drawing, into musical compositions. The digital miracle machine wa…