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score. Handwritten/physical material can be added by scanning or photographing. Here are some examples on the New York Miniaturist Ensemble site.
Examples
Adam de la Cour does a great deal of work working with graphic scores, a lot have as much influence from comics as they do from traditional notation. An example here is Sock!, created using the free Comiclife software. He has also done work which includes creating scores as pieces of art in themselves: Cube, displayed at the Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) has instructions inscribed onto faces of metal cubes using sketches which were then turned in to
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programs for a CNC milling machine to create a three dimensional score. Aaron Cassidy’s work, on the other hand, involves very specific notation for performers focusing in the score on individual physical actions involved in playing, rather than the sonic result. For example, hand positions, breath and pressure could all have separate staves for the same performer. This style of score, for example Being Itself a Catastrophe, the Diagram Must Not Create a Catastrophe (or, Third Study for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion) (2009) was created in Finale. He says: “As with all my work since around 2005, I’ve been particularly precise about spacing (overriding all of the Finale defaults, using my bar 1-15
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ADAM DE LA COUR, CUBE, MADE BY JOHN DE LA COUR
ADAM DE LA COUR, SOCK!