Bill Wurtz returns with an important question:
“Is anything on the map?”
Maps aren’t places. Maps are a guide for finding places, or a way of understanding more about a place, or an idea of what a place could be.
Published scores are maps. They bear as much relationship to the music they represent as maps bear to actual places.
Scores are a guide for finding the music, or a way of understanding more about the music, or an idea of what music could be. They aren’t music.
Scores are maps.
If you don’t know Bill Wurtz, consider watching his brilliant masterpiece, “history of the entire world, i guess” – a classic of both filmmaking and music making.