music
/ˈmjuːzɪk/
noun
1. vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
“couples were dancing to the music”
synonyms: notes, strains, tones, chords, sound; More
2. the written or printed signs representing vocal or instrumental sound.
“Tony learned to read music”
“Heartbeats” by The Knife (2002)
An Evolution of Musical Notation
Japanese drum notation for “Dienst Mars” (Service March) by Inukai Kiyonobu, 1865. Western Military Drums in Japan. via
The evolution of notation in Western music (source unknown)
All is Full of Love by Björk (1999)
“Reckoner” by Radiohead (2007)
Score for prepared piano by John Cage
“The phrase prepared piano is also sometimes applied to other kinds of preparations. Lou Harrison, for example, used something he called the tack piano, a piano with small nails stuck in the hammers to produce a more percussive sound. Conlon Nancarrow adapted his player pianos in a similar way, covering the hammers with metal and leather.”
“‘ARCHITECTURE IS FROZEN MUSIC.’ (This is, I think, the aesthetic key to the development of cartoons as an art form.)”
“What you do with comics, essentially, is take pieces of experience and freeze them in time,” Ware says. “The moments are inert, lying there on the page in the same way that sheet music lies on the printed page. In music you breathe life into the composition by playing it. In comics you make the strip come alive by reading it, by experiencing it beat by beat as you would playing music…”
Paul Greer 