The Line Compositions

Art book, numbered edition of 65 copies 40 pages, 13.9 x 19.7cm

Hand bound with recycled cardboard and bookcloth, embossed logo on the back

4-colour risoprint by we make it in Berlin on uncoated paper, plus Japanese end paper

Classical music notation from Western countries is used only by a minority of musicians around the world. There are other ways to explain compositions to performers. One of them is to create scores with an original, personal way of giving instructions: visually, or just verbally, or both. They are sometimes called graphic scores.

Like many people impressed by minimalist aesthetic in all forms, I have a predilection - if not an obsession - for pure geometric figures. Notably for the line. It brought me, in 2014, to start a series of 24 musical scores made out of lines drawn with pencil on a notebook: straight, parallels, crossing, broken, unbroken, shifting. This book is a selection of one-page scores from this series, where the influence of a Japanese sense of aesthetic is never faraway. (Sylvain Chauveau)

The book is printed with Risograph technique and comes hand bound in the typical Sonic Pieces style, using the same materials as on the record covers.