“I am concerned with single tones as musical entities, each endowed with nature by its own acoustic attributes and expressive potential. It is these microcosmic entities in a continual and multi-leveled transformation and interaction that produce the coherent flow of sonic events that we call a composition.” — Chou Wen-chung (from Single tones as musical entities, 1968)
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Music Notations:
Notations and symbols, developed by Chou, for pitch and rhythmic inflections, and articulation: