Visible Music I by Dieter Schnebel Majella Clarke Conductor and Adele Xian Cello

Visible Music I was written for Conductor and Instrumentalist. The score and its performance challenges the conductor and instrumentalist to work in unison to unify instrumental sonification of conductor gesture with the image. The score’s instructions include a duration of at least 10 minutes and a series of explanations for the performers, which include how to read the graphic score and what to make of its different dimensions. Performance instructions clearly define the role of the conductor and instrumentalist and they are equal in all respects of the interpretation and concepting of sound in the performance. The score is a graphic notation that is segmented with roman numerals indicating the lines of “notes”, which is also rotated so that the performers read the same graphics but rotated 90 270 and 360 degrees, in addition to the initial 180 degrees starting position. Dieter Schnebel (1930-2018) is a German composer, musicologist and theologian who composed orchestral music,