For The Uninitiated, A Visual Way Into New Music

“A graphic score is any musical score that isn’t (or isn’t entirely) written in conventional Western, five-line-staff notation. No two composers use the same system — if system is even the right word for what is often a very open-ended way of representing music — and a composer may invent a new language of notation for each piece he or she writes.” A gallery show puts the scores on view….