Vickery, L., (2018). Some Approaches To Representing Sound With Colour And Shape. Tenor 2018 Conference, Concordia University, Montréal.
In recent times much of the practice of musical notation and representation has begun a gradual migration away from the monochrome standard that existed since the emergence of printed Non-Western music in the 16th century, towards the full colour pallet afforded by modern printers and computer screens. This move has expanded the possibilities available for the representation of information in the musical score. Such an expansion is arguably necessitated by the growth of new musical techniques favouring musical phenomena that were previously poorly captured by traditional Western musical notation. As time-critical form of visualisation there is a strong imperative for the musical score to employ symbols that signify sonic events and the method of their execution with maximal efficiency. One important goal in such efficiency is “semantic soundness”: the degree to which graphical representa- tions makes inherent sense to the reader. This paper ex- plores the implications of recent research into cross-modal colour-to-sound and shape-to-sound mappings for the application of colour and shape in musical scores. The paper also revisits Simon Emmerson’s Super-Score concept as a means to accommodate multiple synchronised forms of sonic representation (the spectrogram and spectral de- scriptors for example) together with alternative notational approaches (gestural, action-based and graphical for ex- ample) in a single digital document. 
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O’Connor , D. and Vickery, L., (2018). Towards a Notation for Trumpet Valve Rotation. Tenor 2018 Conference, Concordia University, Montréal.
Many contemporary performers and composers seek new sounds through extension of traditional instrument techniques. For the trumpet one such extended technique is valve rotation, the rotation of a trumpet piston valve within its casing affecting the timbral complexity of airstream effects. This paper describes the development of a system for notating valve rotation using a prescriptive graphical language and an animated interface for entering continuous rotation and airstream data.
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Vickery, L. (2018). The expansion of compositional mobility in Cage’s Variations I-III | ||||
Vickery, L. and James, S. (2018). Representations of Decay in the Works of Cat Hope |
Vickery, L. and James, S. (2018). Temporal dissonance in Charles Ives' "Putnam's Camp” |
Vickery, L. The Influence of Surrealism on the Development of John Cage’s Techniques of Indeterminacy |