Renotations

Ben Zucker

Music

Just because it’s written like that doesn’t mean it has to sound like that…What happens to your favorite song when you start playing it upside down and backwards?
This system can add excitement, challenge, and novelty to any piece of music!

A prototype for a kit providing instructions, suggestions, and tools for reassigning the various information in a musical score. The demonstration includes musical examples and conceptual discussion, especially the role aesthetics play in the experience of protocols.

This project may be considered a “specialist PILL” — an invitation for a pre-existing domain to think of their field in terms of protocolization by enhancing the granularity of exploration within the system’s norms to inspire further improvement, creativity, and innovation.