Graphic score genesis and its exodus
Artist from Maciunas circle unveiled, that broad definition of score relies on its imperativeness, by exchanging the visual disposition for textual commands creating algorithm enabling to take action or restrain from it. Their event scores reduce the visual representation and its sound consequence (performance) to minimum signifying minimal state of scores performativity. Still Fluxus artist tend to create more traditional graphic scores, which comes with an important aspect leading us to contemporary times. The score becomes affixed convention understood as visibility of invisible or invisibility of visible, which enables to create a meta level of convention. Especially visual artist uses it to create a new strategy using a freshly adapted notion from outside their discipline. In consequence they invert the relation between sound and image in score, where sound functions as a source for creating the musical score understood as a fine arts work.
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