Talk:Graphic Scores-avant-garde

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  • description of sound gestures s such noise, extended playing techniques (e.g. rubbing fingers on skin, bowing a cymbal, processing the sound, etc) that fall outside the scope of western musical notation
  • description of the instrument configurations and setting of an instrument (e.g. the patch of modular synthesizer or preparation of a piano)
  • capacity to change the form of the composition significantly, with each interpretation
  • capacity to change the roles and responsibilities of composer and interpret


John Cartridge Music (1960)

Score elements:

  • 1 page of instructions,
  • 4 transparent sheets: one with points, one with circles, another with a circle that looks like a clock face, and a fourth with a dotted curved line with a circle at the end of it
  • 20 pieces of white paper with shapes on them.

Placement: superimpose the transparencies over the sheet with shapes to get a determination for playing. You may place the sheets randomly, one on top of the other, only making sure that the circle at the end of the dotted line contains a point outside a shape and that the dotted line intersects at least one point within a shape.

Instruction: Curved dotted line: is read from beginning to end (marked with a circle)

Points and circles represent events in the performance:

  • when intersected by dotted line
    • points are:
      • sounds on (inside a shape) corresponding to that shape
      • sounds off (outside a shape) the cartridge, meaning sounds made by other means than those made by the objects in the cartridges
    • circles: mark changes of amplitude (inside a shape) or tone (outside a shape)
    • circle boundary of a shape: change of object

Clock face intersections by dotted line:

  • enter: starting time.
  • exit: ending time.

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http://www.jaimeoliver.pe/recipes/archaeology/cartridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_qgsOLnmkk&t=5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaNHAswN2hU

http://exhibitions.nypl.org/johncage/node/203