I was listening to This American Life: Off Course – the Audition. Near the end of the story there is passing mention that Chinese musical notation is different than Western notation. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/765/off-course/act-one-3
I am not a musician and I never thought about that before. I took a brief travel through some beautiful ways of notating music that I have not seen before.
Bach
Oldest Melody
Byzantine
Korean
Indian
Russian Lubok
Tibetan chant
New universal music notation
Consider the following:
- What happens to regional designs as common and efficient designs are created to facilitate general access?
- What examples of interesting or beautiful local designs do you have that have been missed by the generalization of designs?
- What is the beauty of distributed design like Geocities and Myspace old school?
- What do you think of the universal music notation above?