There’s this thing in music called “graphic notation” where composers use non-standard music notation (sometimes just color splashed on a page!) and leave it to the instrumentalists to decide how to interpret it.
It’s fairly obscure, and you usually don’t hear about it outside of academic music schools.
But Bret Crow on TikTok just wrote a piece and encouraged other musicians to play it, and the results are delightfully creative! Here’s Bret’s own interpretation: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLeSQ3as/
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