In the 1950s progressive composers broke from the 5 line music staff to experiment with new, more expressive forms of graphic music notation Jimmy Stamp The score for John Cage’s indeterminate ...

When musical notation failed the great avant garde composers, they drew a picture instead. Now, a new project hopes everyone else will follow in their footsteps Matt Ashdown is determined to make all ...

The New Music on the Bayou Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary with a groundbreaking fall concert at Grace Episcopal ...

Most professional classical singers are able to perform music written in the five major languages of opera: French, German, Italian, English and Russian. But Aram Tchobanian, a singer who lives in ...

Sound-art unit NU/NC, made up of Japanese guitarist Yoshito Tanaka and art director Seitaro Yamazaki, has released its first single, "Recollection / Aru Fuukei No Kioku" ("Memories of a Scene," in… By ...

There are different ways of reading and writing music. In music notation, the notes tell the musician exactly how to play something. A graphic score is made up of lots of different images. The ...

A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its lines encode mechanisms for the planning, composition, analysis, ...

The soaring, ocean-wide song of humpback whales is often likened to music, but when researchers first started analyzing the clicks, moans and cries, it took the eye of a mathematician to spot a ...