The score for John Cage’s indeterminate composition “Fontana Mix” (image: BBC Radio 3) With the development of music notation, music was set free from the delicate bonds of oral and aural ...

Music notation is at best a compromise ... In 1968, Cage and Alison Knowles published Notations, a collection of experimental scores that is as stylish and self-conscious as any artist’s ...

The Grand Staff. Treble Clef on upper staff; Bass Clef on lower staff (image: wikipedia) The curving flourishes of music notation have always been something a mystery to me, although every day I ...

Yasunao Tone, a composer, theorist, and artist associated with the Fluxus movement whose experimental music found a cult ...

Research areas: music, musicking, music composition, comprovisation, research-creation, transdisciplinary aesthetics, interactive scores, trans-traditional musicking ...