ོ࿐˖✶⊹₊𖦹 W.2 DIVING DEEPER INTO THE CONCEPTS 𖦹₊⊹✶ ࣪˖࿐ོ







WEEK 2 PRESENTATION

This week, we had a presentation as a refresher on our topic, where we talked about our objective, readings, artist inspirations, challenges, weaknesses and strengths.

I was doing my presentation slides when a sudden thought flew across my mind.

"What if I normal musical notation is replaced into something else so that everyone is able to understand a musical notation sheet even without knowing how to play an instrument?"

"Can someone without any prior musical knowledge see a musical notation sheet and recognise the song?"

Following that, I decided to do a rough sketch by using a univeral known song, 'Jingle Bells' and replacing the piano notations with triangles, rectangles, squares and some other organic shapes. Solid shapes symbolises a normal note while a hollow shape signifies a longer note called 'sustain' in musical terms.

I thought this was a little complex so I switched to colours where each colour represent a piano note. Bigger oval symbolises a 'sustain' note. The oval-coloured shapes are also drawn on different lines. An oval drawn on a higher line stands for a higher-pitched note and an oval drawn on a lower line stands for a lower-piched note.

Ideation Sketch in my Wk.2 presentation slides



    • Feedbacks from the Week 2 Presentation



BOOKS

01 Score by Score by Oh Min
A creative book about the use of scores across disciplines and settings. It looks at how instructions, guidelines, and performance frameworks might give different outcomes in music, dance, and other artistic expressions. This publication represents her unique approach to interpreting and visualizing the concept of scores as both functional and artistic tools.

"The score is a diary, which organizes, develops, and documents ideas; a plan pre­dicting the future, as well as a form of storage and a mirror that reflects the completed performance. It is also an agen­cy, which mediates between the author and the performer, as well as a guide used by the audience to read the performance. "




    • The score sometimes separates itself from the performance, becoming an independent and autonomous artwork.

BOOKS

02 Waves and Currents by Song Ming Ang
His Isometric Drawings, resembling graphic scores, aim to function autonomously as visual compositions while offering interpretative freedom to performers.

His musical compositions, titled Patches, are crafted through techniques such as feedback, recursive modulation, and live mixing, which manipulate voltage to generate analog chaos.

These principles inspired his Voltage Drawings, which visualize waveform movements on graph paper, evoking imaginary landscapes with architectural qualities.

The Pulses video series uses abstraction and geometry to link outer and inner emotional worlds, synchronizing visuals with soundtracks.

Words is a multidisciplinary exploration featuring blunt and rhythmic textual series channeling raw emotions into poetic, sculptural forms.








    • His creative process - exploring the interplay between:
    modular synthesis, abstract visuals, and textual expression.


Moving Forward to Week 3

  • Case Studies
  • Experimentations
  • Readings