Notations 21

Drawing inspiration from John Cage’s, Notations, Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 international composers, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation. These spectacularly beautiful and fascinatingly creative visual pieces not only make for exciting music, but inspiring visual art as well. The scores are accompanied by written contributions from the artists that explore every facet of their creative processes, from inspiration to execution.

Cartography

Digital Acoustic Cartography has attempted to map noise patterns of everyday objects and events - e.g. the closing of a car door. Essentially, the acoustic pattern resulting from an event is turned into a relief model of sound; this is combined with a photographic overlay of the noise maker. The result is a three-dimensional map of the object and its sound.

The process is still experimental and, if nothing else, produces interesting shapes.

Noise by numbers at 1250 Hz

Frequency for an automobile gear.

Karel Martens

Karel Marten's work occupies a unique place in the present European art and design landscape. While working in the tradition of Dutch modernism, he maintains distance from the main developments of his time: from both the practices of routinized Modernism and the facile reactions against it. His work is personal and experimental, while at the same time publicly answerable.

He has published a book called 'Printed Matter'.

I especially enjoy his work when he uses overlapping and layering in print to create wonderful pieces. The multi-layered work is also what I intend to do for my degree. He also uses a lot of colour in his work.

Lesquatrestacianos

Mot Studio had come up with a series of graphic information system, posters, book & stamps on Vivaldi's Four Seasons. They have broken down the song and have mapped them using a graphic information system. (www.motstudio.com)

These posters are accompanied by a handbook which describes the mapping.

The shape of my song

What does music look like? The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question. The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to literally see the shape of any composition available on the Web.

Click here to go to the site.

The artist Martin Wattenberg is a New York-based digital artist whose work centers on the theme of mapping information.

The mapping is fairly simple. Each arch connects two identical passages. To clarify the connection between the visualization and the song, in this diagram the score is displayed beneath the arches.