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C.F.I Telepathy: Asemic Writing Myles Anderson
From the telepathy section in the reader I have applied asemic writing to my discipline of music. Asemic writing is defined as “having no specific semantic content.” It is a form of notation that is unstructured and free of conventional methods of communication. It often reflects traditional writing to a degree but can also include pictograms and ideograms that sometimes intend to convey their meaning through shape and form.
The role of the reader of asemic writing is to personally interpret the message before them. This writing often has no fixed meaning, and so with each individual interpretation there is no incorrect answer . Asemic text can also be read by anyone, regardless of their natural language, but cannot verbally be expressed. The technique aims to be a mixture of looking and reading.
I have applied the same principal to a musical score.
The concept of non conventional and experimental music is in no way a new idea. The concept of asemic music is very similar to the Avant garde movement. It differs to this movement however as the majority of Avant Garde music has a planned outcome and intention for a desired sound of the music. Examples of alternative musical scoring are in the c.f.i reader on page 67. An English Avant Garde composer, Cornelius Cardew produced a work called ‘Treatise’ in 1963.
This is an excerpt from the work, and it is clearly an example non conventional musical scoring. Other examples of avant garde compositions can be found at www.drawingsonwriting.org which is where this particular example came from. Asemic writing and avant garde composition are examples of non conventional methods of portraying a message. My piece of asemic writing is experimental, with an open tempo and duration and for any amount of instruments.
the hand written one is my composition.
