Marco Fusinato’s Mass Black Implosion works are gorgeous drawing on top of the scores to avant-garde musical pieces. By connecting all the notes to an arbitrary central point, he makes incredibly dynamic figures (check out the gallery to see his drawings on some more unconventional scores).

The notes suggest that these new scores might be used as the basis for improvisational play, upending the “expectation-frustrating dynamics of the academic avant-garde” with “the energy and volume of rock.” Now, I’m one of those people who finds the academic avant-garde more exciting than frustrating (easy to do when I don’t have to deal with them face to face, I guess), but regardless of the notes, these drawings are fantastic.

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From a series of amazing drawings by Morgan O’Hara:

Movement of the hands of Composer Pierre Boulez while conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky’s Petrouchka / Carnegie Hall, New York City 13 March 2000

There is also one capturing the motion of hands on the piano, which I feel almost obligated to use as part of my thesis.

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Norman McLaren is known for his hand-drawn films—animations drawn directly on the film strip. These films often have hand-drawn soundtracks as well, taking advantage of the visual encoding of sound on film to create novel sounds by hand.

This video is one of those old-timey charming specials on how he did it.

(via the music of sound)