Image of the Week: Kannenberg’s Graphic Score
The netlabel proprietor and musician John Kannenberg has posted the third of his graphic-scores series as a PDF. Titled Landscape 3: Aerial Perspective, the work resembles a multi-color op-art construction, rectangular blocks of color interspersed in a manner that suggests a bright, almost blinding light in the distance, when in fact all there is in the center is more white than appears elsewhere. This is the score image:
The image below is a version of the score included in the piece’s written instructions. It is subtitled in the PDF as the “flow pattern for reading the score.” The instructions call for a minimum of four participants, one of whom serves as a timekeeper. Aerial Perspective lasts for 20 minutes, and requires the inclusion of a field recording that Kannenberg has made available as a downloadable file (MP3), consisting of everyday noises, including birdsong and airplanes.
More on the score at johnkannenberg.com.
that work ‘Landscape3,Aerial Perspective’ is brilliant.. it works for me because the whole linear construction operates on several levels and as a complete entity. Brilliant!