Inpatient Press in collaboration with Lea Bertucci is pleased to announce an open call for scores for the second volume of The Tonebook. This publication is a survey of creative approaches to musical notation by some of today’s most innovative living sound artists and composers in the form of a limited edition artist’s book. We hope to cast a wide net and showcase diverse approaches to creatively notating sound. From staff notation to completely abstract textural/graphic/architectural/algorithmic depictions, we are interested in the idiosyncratic visual languages that sound artists develop to describe their music. Artists included in the first volume include: Zeena Parkins, Elliot Sharp, Eli Keszler, Nate Wooley and Phill Niblock among many others.
Excerpts from Volume 1 can be found here http://inpatientpress.bigcartel.com/product/tonebook and here https://www.thewire.co.uk/galleries/gallery-the-tonebook-collection-of-graphic-scores
Instructions: Please submit as many scores as you like using the google form (link below). Please note that for each score, you must fill out an individual form. The files must be PDF’s at no larger than 10mb per file.
https://goo.gl/forms/EW37nX3TyNm5Efv92
Timeline: Deadline for submissions is midnight on May 1st, 2018. Applicants will be informed of the curator’s decision around late August. The publication is scheduled for release in early 2019.
Contact: archon@inpatientpress.com
About Inpatient/ Tonebook Vol. 1
Inpatient Press is a Brooklyn-based independent publisher of poetry, fiction, art, etceteras and ephemeralia. They specialize in limited edition and handmade works.
http://www.inpatientpress.com/
The Tonebook volume 1 was released in September of 2017. Receiving widespread praise from The Wire and Bomb Magazine, among others, it has been added to collections at institutions such as The New England Conservatory, Princeton University and Mills College and is distributed by Printed Matter.
http://inpatientpress.bigcartel.com/product/tonebook