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TS: The scores are music because they were created for performance. However, I would say that many of these scores rival the best in contemporary visual arts. Many of these composers have backgrounds in visual art in addition to their musicality, such as Douglas C.

Wadle, Tony Martin, Jennifer Walshe, Steve Roden, and John Kannenberg, and the visual aesthetic is extremely important to these composers for the most part. Yes, these scores can be evaluated on a purely visual or musical basis, which makes these scores even more interesting. The joy of hearing these new scores while putting this book together was an incredible experience for me. MS: How did what was going on in the visual art world influence this type of scoring, both back in the s and now in ?

TS: Western notated music is highly deterministic, leaving very little to interpretation for the performer. The composer used notation to guide every detail of the performance leaving very little to chance. The rise of the Fluxus movement explored indeterminacy in art and music and was a very exciting time in history. Political and social issues, the idea of freedom and breaking rules, collaboration and community, choices and creating new boundaries….

In , many of the composers included in Notations 21 are dealing with new and very powerful political and social issues, ideas of freedom and our environment on a larger and more global scale. These new and old issues are represented in Notations 21 side-by-side. It has always been music and art throughout history that has made such an impact during times of social change. You will see that these new, daring musical manifestations are also ideas and philosophies put to paper that should be heard and understood and brought into mainstream consciousness.

It is the future of music and art together. Does it delineate a kind of genre all its own? Composers are coming from many cultures around the world and communicating in many languages. That is effecting the development of new notation.

New technology and the inclusion of electronic material and new instruments demand new notational languages. When you incorporate influences such as folk music, jazz, rock, spiritual music, sounds from the environment from all world sources, there needs to be a more open mind when it comes to notation. To think that Western notation is going to fit the needs of musicians of all cultures when we are now a global culture is not reality.

Notations 21 gives just a hint at what that new reality is and where all music will eventually move. It has to if we are to communicate creatively on a global scale. NewMusicBox provides a space for those engaged with new music to communicate their experiences and ideas in their own words. Articles and commentary posted here reflect the viewpoints of their individual authors; their appearance on NewMusicBox does not imply endorsement by New Music USA.

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Notations 21 by Theresa Sauer. Drawing inspiration from John Cage's Notations , Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than international composers, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation. These spectacularly beautiful and fascinatingly creative visual pieces make not only for exciting music, but for inspiring visual art as well. The scores are accompa Drawing inspiration from John Cage's Notations , Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than international composers, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation.

The scores are accompanied by written contributions from the artists that explore every facet of their creative processes, from inspiration to execution.

In the spirit of honoring the 40th anniversary of Cage's seminal book, while furthering it in a 21st century context, a portion of the sales will be donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts.

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