Variations on Natural Themes for an Orchestra

Artist: Dick Higgins
Technique: analogue photograph, print on paper notation
Measurement: 31 × 20 cm; 21 × 21 cm; 24 × 20 cm
Date: 1982

This is an unusual method of construction of a musical score.  The work consists of twenty eight photographs, processed in the darkroom, which have been overlaid on a musical score notepaper, randomly obscuring it. The resultant compositions of dark blotches of colour together with visible fragments of the score paper are treated as a musical score for performers.

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