The Shift from Semantic to Visual in Traditional Chinese Musical Notation: Jianzi Notation as Asemic Writing
2024
This research focuses on the conceptual and visual shift of traditional Chinese musical notation towards graphic notation. Specifically, it explores the conceptual and visual shift from traditional notation to graphic notation, attempting to transcend its limitations on the semantic level (musical information). I explore this issue by proposing Jianzi notation as a form of asemic writing. As a representative of traditional Chinese musical notation, Jianzi notation uses simplified Chinese characters and symbols to indicate pitch, fingering, and string positions, exhibiting significant graphic characteristics. This involves a semiotic analysis of Jianzi notation, a comparison between Jianzi notation and avant-garde visual poetry, and designing a graphic notation based on Jianzi notation as asemic writing. The research analyzes the visual characteristics of Jianzi notation from a semiotic perspective, exploring how it embodies the features of asemic writing, thus revealing Chinese notation's transition from traditional musical notation to visual expression.
Integrating advanced software tools like Max/MSP and Processing for dynamic demonstrations.
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2024
This research focuses on the conceptual and visual shift of traditional Chinese musical notation towards graphic notation. Specifically, it explores the conceptual and visual shift from traditional notation to graphic notation, attempting to transcend its limitations on the semantic level (musical information). I explore this issue by proposing Jianzi notation as a form of asemic writing. As a representative of traditional Chinese musical notation, Jianzi notation uses simplified Chinese characters and symbols to indicate pitch, fingering, and string positions, exhibiting significant graphic characteristics. This involves a semiotic analysis of Jianzi notation, a comparison between Jianzi notation and avant-garde visual poetry, and designing a graphic notation based on Jianzi notation as asemic writing. The research analyzes the visual characteristics of Jianzi notation from a semiotic perspective, exploring how it embodies the features of asemic writing, thus revealing Chinese notation's transition from traditional musical notation to visual expression.
Integrating advanced software tools like Max/MSP and Processing for dynamic demonstrations.
👉🔗 RCA Research Programmes
For the full version please contact the author.
5563
