Nonstandard notation systems

[Polite Company]

That can't possibly result in music.

You could always sample yourself tearing up and crumpling the paper and make something out of that.

[rockstar_not]

Kingston,

Never had seen that image before. Fortunately, I was not sipping a soda at the time, or I would be cleaning the screen right now. Unfortunately, I had an appendectomy operation on Tuesday evening, and my laughing is painful right now.

Lakers in 6, sell the mute, turn the flame higher and higher.

[rockstar_not]

Not exactly a general notation system but this reminded me of the back cover of Brian Eno's Music for Airports:

One of my favorite Eno albums, 2nd in place next to "Apollo Atmospheres and Soundscapes" that he did with brother Roger and Daniel Lanois. I tried imagining how these scores were used for the tracks on MFA, but I never did understand their use.

I now wonder if Mr. Eno was just toying with us!

Who else did the pseudo surround speaker setup that Eno has on the back of one of his Ambient (I think it was "On Land") albums? I had that setup in my bedroom back in my college days.

-Scott

[Toxikator]

That can't possibly result in music.

You could always sample yourself tearing up and crumpling the paper and make something out of that.

Actually that sounds fun. It would be very Matmos of me to make a statement about how stupid that piece is by making a song from samples of me tearing it up.

BTW, just as an aside for the music theory forum, if you've never taken a minimalist approach to composition like that (make a song from the sounds of one thing) I highly recommend it. Not only is it fun but you often get spectacular results.

[vurt]

[JumpingJackFlash]

That can't possibly result in music.

I may be wrong, but I imagine that the score in question (like many of these non-standard things) is a kind-of description of the music; like a visual interpretation of existing audio. - I would think it is not primarily meant to be instructions on how to play the music to give to someone who had no familiarity with it. - If you gave something like that to even the world's best orchestral musicians, it is very doubtful they would give it the time of day. - Unlike for example the traditional-style scores (not just classical) which you can more-or-less give to any decent musician and, details of style and interpretation not withstanding, they could reproduce the sound almost exactly (the best could even do so by sight-reading alone).

I mean, unless given a much better copy, you can't even read that score without a magnifying glass, and sight-reading it would be almost impossible.

[chardin]

How about this, whyterabbyt?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Harp

[whyterabbyt]

How about this, whyterabbyt?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Harp

Thankee.