This notation system uses the human body as a scoring mechanism. Recording the rhythms of the essential systems of the body (cardiovascular, nervous, respiratory, reproductive), users can “perform” those physical functions as music: the body generating a composition of the self.
In the acoustically dead space of Harvard’s Anechoic Chamber (1951), John Cage wrote: “in that silent room I heard two sounds, one high and one low. Afterward, the engineer explained: ‘The high one was your nervous system in operation. The low one was your blood in circulation.'
Cage heard the sounds of his living body -- neither silence nor music, properly speaking, yet both. This notation isolates those organic systems, blooming them as musical structures.
Music notations are documents describing a future of performance. Here, every pulse and breath is a minute of music -- a purely stochastic composition system, the human physique, re-written the transformation of bodily passages into musical ones.
