more about the cover - animated gifs

Please take look at the animated gifs by Edward Kulemin:

https://giphy.com/gifs/d2YZuGnlkQnEluDu

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oEduWvZdMMPfFiFeo

So we can see the expanded version of the cover art for "comics as music notation" anthology!

comics as music notation

Comics as Music Notation

So the mini-anthology is ready, please take a look!

COMICS AS MUSICAL NOTATION?

(... or musical notation as comics?)

Title: “Chomsky Vs. Foucault”
Medium: Graphic score, 8.5” by 11” ink on paper. 2007.
Composer: Daniel Schnee
Nationality: Canadian



Notes:

This work is a graphic score: a musical composition utilizing non-standard notation: an original combination text, symbols, and numbers. The score represents four distinct territories or systems, each of which can be played or excluded at will. The performer is to read each territory as a set of possible directions inspiring free improvisation in the moment of emotional response, like a sort of musical Rorschach test. One can also assign dynamic or musical values to each segment of each territory and thus read it more like a traditional score, e.g. the name of the composer Tallis equals the note G. One could also interpret the names listed in the lower left hand corner as indications of what kinds of ideas and sounds can be brought in from other sources, i.e. Takemitsu suggests quoting material/themes from Toru Takemitsu’s work November Steps.

The title and imagery of the work is a cartoonish depiction of the 1971 Dutch television debate between linguist Noam Chomsky and philosopher Michel Foucault on the subject of human nature. Each bark at the other, and while they do not come to an agreement, they unwittingly display human nature in the form of argumentation.

Bio:

Dr. Daniel Schnee is an ethnomusicologist and saxophonist who has performed worldwide with over twenty different Juno and Grammy™ Award winning musicians. He has also been internationally recognized as a graphic score composer, and is a former student of both Pulitzer Prize-winning saxophonist Ornette Coleman, and legendary Japanese GUTAI artist Shozo Shimamoto.

Media:

https://danielpaulschnee.wordpress.com

https://chollobhat.wordpress.com

comics as music notation

allow me to invite you to an anthology, where music is written in the form of (experimental) comics.

comics can be read or watched, but it can also be played. we can also create comics that are especially meant to be played (on various musical instruments). sometimes the words in speech balloons can be sung, the onomatopoeias (sound effects) also give us great opportunities. well, it's obvious that composers often use graphic notation to write music - it would be great to see works where comics are used this way in our anthology.

a quick search of similar works:
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/807/391/63d.gif http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/807/392/234.gif http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2007/01/note/cardew_-_treatiseP183.jpg http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2007/01/note/Earle_Brown_Cross_Sections_and_Color_Fields.jpg http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2007/01/note/Oresteia_Iannis_Xenakis.jpg http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2007/01/note/stockhausen_-_Kontakte_1.jpg http://abstractcomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/morton-feldmans-graph-notation.html http://www.tonedeafcomics.com/comic/extinct-music-notations/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_notation http://www.cnvill.net/mfgriff.htm http://www.wired.com/2014/11/instrument-turns-musical-notation-simple-visual-system http://konokopia.typepad.com/konokopia/2010/10/scroll-as-music.html http://retaildesignblog.net/2015/01/19/soundweaving-by-zsanett-szirmay/

edit (some more links): http://www.sinfinimusic.com/uk/features/blogs/ears-have-eyes/graphic-scores http://vbn.aau.dk/files/14524203/gnt.pdf

you are the composer/experimental comic artist, feel free to create your own ways.

the anthology will be a pdf file that you can print. a copy will also be sent to the National Library in Warsaw, Poland.

A4 format, vertical.

deadline: till the end of December 2015.

each author can send as many pages as he or she wishes. please sign each piece - there will be no "Contents" page.

please send the comics (graphic files: gif, png or jpg - not pdf) to pszren@wp.pl as attachments.

after LeSzeK

during the fourth Lublin Meetings with Comics (Lubelskie Spotkania z Komiksem - LeSzeK) I had a small presentation about some projects - one of them was the Adding anthology. I think the presentation was a success. http://www.lszk.pl

Adding - anthology of experimental comics

so the anthology is ready! Adding

Adding - invitation to a next anthology

I would like to invite you all to a next minianthology (well, it doesn't have to turn out mini :) ). this would be a gathering of experimental comics that have something to do with adding.

the idea of adding/collage/phases of the process/a+d+d+i+n+g/two lines --=+/what can we add to comics/what do you add to create a comics/what would you like to add?/spices/addiction (well, it's just a stream of keywords)/we/synergy/interactions/...

each author can send as many pages as he or she wishes.

A4 format, vertical.
deadline: till the end of May, this year.

please send the comics to pszren@wp.pl as attachments.

the file will be available in .pdf

edit:

a printed copy of the anthology will be sent to National Library in Warsaw, Poland. you may certainly also send copies to some libraries.

please sign each piece - there will be no "Contents" page.

Guest Pages are here!

hello everyone,

the Guest Pages minianthology has been published!

the texts are in Polish. ten authors from 3 countries.

http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/goscinnestrony.pdf

Gościnne Strony - Guest Pages

hello,

I would like to invite everyone to the project "Guest Pages".

Please send one page of comics and a text to pszren@wp.pl before the end of December 2011.

the comics should be inspired by/somehow similar to/developing the ideas of the "tandian" series. so it can be minimalistic with dots and frames only, but it can be totally different. please surprise the reader, break the rules. the comics should not be published before.

the text (comment, story, your views, explanation, whatever you want) should be signed (I mean please let me know if you want your name or nickname under it). the texts will be translated into Polish and published in Polish only (but I can put the English version on the net if you want).

the gathered pieces will be published in an anthology as a pdf file. a printed version will be sent to the National Library in Warsaw, Poland. and anyone interested will be able to print a copy as well.

It would be great to gather many interesting pieces of experimental comics and interesting comments from various authors. please take part in the project and also please invite anyone who could be interested.

all the best

Pszren

http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/tandian.pdf
http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/dantian.pdf
http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/tundiun.pdf
http://iiii.comicgenesis.com/dan.pdf


(as I'm somehow not able to comment on blogspot - I really don't know why, cookies perhaps? - I will give answers to any questions in this post, ok? or by email).

aleatoric comics - project for 2 weeks

hello, I would like to invite you to a little project aiming at exploring and developing the idea of aleatoric comics. aleatoric, random, not controlled - well, the idea is that the creator doesn't fully control how the comics will look like, how the reader will read it or what comics will appear. perhaps many comics are aleatoric in part, but here I would like to ask you to create comics that can be the "mainstream" or examples of aleatoric comics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoricism

If you wish, you can also write comments on how you made your works or how they should be read. you can also write your own thoughts on aleatoric comics or your definition of such comics.

if it's ok, I would like you to post your works for the project before the 12th of December 2010 here on the blog. I will put them together into a small brochure, for archive purposes - I will send a copy to the National Library in Warsaw, Poland (I will not send copies to the Authors, but everyone will be able to print a copy from a pdf file that will be posted on scribd). I hope it's ok.

If you want me to use files of better quality for the brochure, please send them to pszren[at]wp[dot]pl

all the best to you all, it would really be great to see your works here.

concrete comics anthology

Concrete Comics Anthology

so it's ready, great thanks to all contributors (Rosaire Appel, Sibylle Blaumann, Jonny Gray, Satu Kaikkonen, Mateusz Suchecki, Jan Szreniawski, and me - Piotr Szreniawski :) ). I hope the anthology looks fine, and that we will do more projects together!

about the concrete comics anthology

what are concrete comics? well, perhaps comics that can be found around us, in the living world, something that is not a comic but looks like one. or perhaps these would be pictures of comics that appear somewhere (well, this would go more into metacomics perhaps :) ). I think the definition of concrete comics would be analogical to what can define conrete music or concrete poetry. or perhaps we should and can simply feel it, and let the theory be based on our works?

let's look at Wikipedia,
perhaps here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_poetry
not here, even though it also can be interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_(comics)

there are some concrete/found comics on our blog already, perhaps we should think about the details of the anthology. so this is what I suggest:

I would plan the anthology as a booklet A5 format, landscape oriented, black and white. it will have an ISBN. this is not a commercial project, it will be sent to the authors and some libraries (and perhaps to some other people or institutions that should have it), it will also be presented in the net in .pdf format.

so if you would like to participate, please email your work(s) to pszren(at)wp(dot)pl before October 15th. and please send me your mailing address, so that I can send you a copy of the anthology. (I don't keep the addresses from previous projects, so please don't get angry, just type the address again :) ). is that all right?

I'm leaving tomorrow for a week (karate course), but if you have any suggestions, please write them here, we can discuss it. I hope the project sounds interesting, and that a nice mini-anthology will appear :)

all the best to you,

Pszren