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Originally Posted by Dev
That's just where I can't agree with you at all - the system MUST be explained. If there's no instruction, no explanation for how to read this as a musical score, then it isn't a score...
Even if the "system" is just the sentence "interpret this however you like," though that's not MUCH better...
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Fair enough, disagree all you want!
To improvisors, the 'system' is ingrained, inferred and implied - and needs no explaining. To solidify it into a rigid 'system' goes against the whole idea. The composer doesn't want to specify "yellow means play fast"...we want to allow the musicians to extract it, and apply their own 'system' and personality so the music can flow organically and simply
exist in the moment.
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I'm just trying to get you to see things from a different angle, here. Now, you glazed over this before, so I'll show it to you again:
Can you see how someone might perform differently to each of these images?
I assume you can...
The 'system' in already naturally ingrained in us as human beings...in spontaneous improvisations from graphical scores, we simply allow the music to be; to happen, following the visual cues with regards to whatever we may infer from the images. Every person is going to react differently from another - even from themselves in one moment to the next. BUT, the point is, that the 'system' you so desperately seek is already there...you just can't see it because it's not in the form you're used to seeing.
Now, I don't really want to keep saying the same thing over and over again, so let's just stop.
Again, I'll say (in the nicest, gentlest, and least offensive manner): I hope perhaps someday you understand.