Research on Graphic (Notations) Scores

Graphic scores are a way of interpreting music differently than traditional music scoring by using shapes, lines, colour, words etc. This is a more abstract way of expressing music and sometimes have guides in order for the player to know how to play them, but often the players are also left to interpret the graphic scores themselves and decide how they'll play according to the scores that they say, creating interest sounds.

Examples of graphic scores:

Picnic by McQueen - this graphic score was created in relation to the instruments played for a music piece, therefore indicating which player plays which part of the composition.

Cardew with their 193 page long graphic score 'Treatise'. 

Ideas I have for my own graphic scores designs may be:

• representing each instruments played
• representing different voices/ singers
• different notes sang
• different colours to represent each singer, instrument
• symbols or shapes for each instrument?
• the volume of sound - how loud or quiet they are? --? louder, bigger or darker shades of shapes?
• including phrases or random stream of consciousness while listening to the song.