Experimental Notation Research

Experimental Music Notation

This project is turning into creating a visual language to express music. 
Arguably there aren't words to describe music, music is 'the language of emotions' (Kania 2017). 

My art is therefore trying to create its own vocabulary to communicate my subjective responses to music.

COLOUR
SHAPE
ABSTRACT
LINE QUALITY
ON THE MUSIC SCORE TO TRACK TIME
COMPLETE SCRAMBLE OF THE SOUND

This seems like a visualisation in order to explain what is in the artists head. Everything is spread out like a spider diagram of different points and pieces of information.

John Cage

This has the thickness and main body of the sound through the middle (perhaps even the rhythm as it is very regimented) as a grid and then the other melodies escaping loosely.

John Cage

Where the music is present, sound mapping the location and direction of the music minimally through linear form. 

A score of music communicating the change in sound logically through colour and size and position of the circles. Definitely has its own musical language here.

Each different instrument and different part has its own line. Can see the where the music thickens and builds up but not particularly how to play it. Can see traditional musical notational elements here. Perhaps this would be useful for a conductor?

This seems like a subjective expression of the music rather than something that someone else could understand. It communicates the feelings of the different elements of the music.

Paul Chan

This communicates the musics presence in time. Along a traditional score it maps out the shape of each note, how each note should be played. Perhaps this would accompany a traditional music score as instructions on how to express the notes?

Wadada- Leo- Smith

This seems to visualise the musical space. It is very atmospheric and expresses how the artist felt when experiencing the music.