I draw lines to know my way

The images above are from the portrait of Elaine Radigue available via Ubu Web. Here Radigue is describing her scoring process for working with the ARP, mapping out parameter changes. In many ways this is nothing more unusual than scoring of any kind, yet there’s a sense in which systems based approaches to electronic music composition requires a variety of approaches to navigation: to navigation of the system itself and its multiple parameters, modifers, etc., and a sense that by way of a systems approach to composition the artist navigates a systemic conception of the global-scale, earth magnitudes, or sublime systems. This will be the topic of a forthcoming paper.