Graphic scores were prevalent among the post-Cage experimenters. But no,
Eno's diagrams for his Music For Airports pieces were not exact. When I
interviewed Bang On A Can about their version of Airports they told me
that when they transcribed the original recordings the sound events
didn't match the diagrams. In fact the conjunctions of the long
staggered loops didn't happen in the right places either - Eno had
edited some of it! So much for relying on pure process like the Steve
Reich pieces he was influenced by.
cheers
Chris Twomey
Martin Glaubitz wrote:
quoted 25 lines So I think I've heard from this list that the fractured-patterned line
>
> So I think I've heard from this list that the fractured-patterned line
> graphics on the Autechre covers don't correspond with the music itself. With
> that in mind......
>
> Brian Eno's Music for Airports has a pictogram-ish graphic identified on the
> liner art for each of the 4 tracks. It seems like there's a bit of
> resemblence between the tracks and the graphics. The first track has a
> graphic of a single phrase repeated numerous times, with different
> components highlighted each time, which matches the audio track. The 2nd
> track, which is seemingly sonically unsyncopated, has an appropriate graphic
> where individual sections repeat, but with different offsets, so they don't
> mesh rhythmically. Also, the 2nd track uses only voices, so the pictogram
> features only shaded boxes for that track, whereas the other tracks have
> multiple symbols to correspond with their richer palette of sounds.
>
> It looks like they're supposed to be some sort of universal symbolic
> transcription or score of each song, like something NASA would shoot up in
> the deep space probe for extraterrestrial life or something. Or maybe a
> computer printout of the pattern entered into a sequencer for each song. But
> this was 1978; had a computer sequencer been created yet at that time?
>
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