roachboy

there is no particular value in using conventional notation--it is little more than a heuristic in some forms of music--not all--your relation to it should be a function of what you want to do, to my mind. in the kind of music i do, graphic scores or verbal prompts operate as or more effectively than conventional notation--if you were inclined toward blurring the line that otherwise would seperate performing from "composing", it makes as much sense to start with graphic scores as it would to worry about sightreading straight notation.

i am not saying that it is useless--just that there is no reason to assume it necessary, in the same way, for every form of music.

what matters is your ability to think organization of sound, not the medium through which particular conceptions of organization are expressed.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

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