What is a graphic score? A graphic score / graphic notation is a way of representing audio in a visual form in opposed to using the traditional musical notation.
A graphic score is open to interpretations and none can necessarily be right or wrong as it is a personal response to the music/audio. It became popular in the 1950s to challenge the idea of classical musical notation.
During researching graphic scores I found a few from my favourite musicians. This is Brian Eno’s graphic score for Music for Airports, he created it as he’s not a trained musician and cannot read music. He used symbolism to represent different phrases or loops which are separated by white space to represent time in-between the phrases.
I found a video on Vimeo about Aphex Twin’s remote orchestra, in the 2011 video he used midi controllers to cue a graphic score which a 48 part orchestra and a 24 piece choir followed, it was supposedly done in one rehearsal.
John Cage:Aria
For my graphic score I decided to use an