Sunday, February 27, 2011

All Kinds of Music 4: Sound Patterns









Educational pamphlet by he who can do no wrong, John Paynter. This would be a great companion piece for Kurt Rowland's Pattern and Shape.

Make sounds with stones, draw sounds out of stones, using a number of sizes and kinds (and colours): for the most part discretely; sometimes in rapid sequences. For the most part striking stones with stones, but also stones on other surfaces (inside the open head of a drum, for instance) or other than struck (bowed, for instance, or amplified). Do not break anything.

3 comments:

  1. That last paragraph sounds something like my recollection of the 'score' (instructions) for Christian Wolff's 'Stones' (1968). Lovely post. I very much like 'Composition No. 2' and its setting.

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  2. Ah, you're right. Christian Wolff it is.

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  3. All graphic design should look like this.

    I have another of the books from this series myself.

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