#visual scores

[sivavakkiyar]

Buckminster Fuller, “How Little I Know”

[sivavakkiyar]

Erik Satie, sketches for the Nocturnes

[sivavakkiyar]

Cathy Berberian, Stripsody

Berberian gained notoriety as a virtuosic interpreter of new music and was esteemed for the extraordinary wit and intelligence with which she approached any project. She possessed an astonishing “rapid-reflex” technique by which she shifted seamlessly between disparate music styles, invoking Marlene Dietrich, baby talk, bird call, and Sprechstimme in one musical line, and her impeccable vocal technique also lent insight to stylized trilling and ululation.

In 1966, Berberian composed her first musical work, Stripsody for solo voice, an exploration of the onomatopoeic sounds of comic strips, which she used to convey a succession of amusing vignettes, illustrated by Roberto Zamarin.

[twinklr-notebook]

(via OP-SCHOOL 08: Sketch - YouTube)

The Teenage Engineering OP-1 has a sequencer that behaves like an Etch-a-Sketch. This reminded me of the way that, on encountering Twinklr, the second thing people do - after initially playing with it - is try to draw a picture. Also: something something the lineage of visual scores.

[soniayuditskaya]

mantles of earth http://ift.tt/1UYt9bZ

[soniayuditskaya]

venus http://ift.tt/1ptjC0F

[soundtype]

Visual scoresVisual scores by composers offer a wide variety of images used for representing sounds and different aspects of sounds. (Thanks to Esther Venrooij for the input.)

[polymodalarcade]

Visual score by Brian Eno. Music for Airports