Pixelh8 Graphic Scores Workshop @ Suffolk New College
I ran a new workshop today for the first time, graphic scores or graphical notation, which is something I use quite often as I am not entirely comfortable with standard notation and often use colours , words or even morse code when writing down ideas for music. I often see music in my head, ideas and sounds come about via a very synesthesia like technique. It was good to have an entire group of students draw graphical scores, a lot of them for the first time, so crayons, coloured paper and felt tip pens we spent about an hour and a bit just sketching out ideas. There were some very colourful and elaborate scores, I however very amusingly stuck to traditional black and white for my own examples. The session was used to highlight the uses such as the alleviation of writers block, limitations and the ambiguaty and freedom of graphical scores and by the end of the session several of the students were keen to interpret and perform theirs and their colleagues scores. It was a very enjoyable workshop and certainly one I will run again in the future.
Pixelh8 “Whats In a Name”
Pixelh8 “Jaw Tooth”
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