Mark-Making/Scores

Here are some examples of composers who took the idea of a compositional score and bent it. The visual represented the concept - music and composition through indeterminacy and chance. Many of them were called "Mobile Works" because they were written in separated parts, allowing for the performer to choose when and what to play as well as what order it is played in. Ultimately, authorship comes in to question - is it the composer's piece because they wrote the score? Or does it become the performer's piece because their interpretation changes the piece from performance to performance? I like the blurriness of definitions there.

Anthony Braxton



Christian Wolff



Sylvano Bussotti



Cornelius Cardew