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World music notations and the two systems that notate a body in space rather than a sound in time. What holds the group together is that "notation" means something different in each tradition: sargam names pitch by syllable, gongche by character, jianpu by numeral, jeongganbo by position in a grid that encodes duration spatially, and Labanotation packs direction, level and duration into the shape, shading and length of one mark. Several members record what a system deliberately leaves out — a gongche score specifies pitch and trusts the oral tradition with rhythm — and one records what was lost, since parts of the znamenny repertory can no longer be read.
Seven syllables naming the degrees of a scale.
Chinese characters standing for pitches, read in columns.
The numerals 1 to 7 standing for scale degrees.
A grid of boxes with pitch names placed inside.
Hooked and banner-like marks above Church Slavonic text.
Noteheads shaped as triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds.
Seven hand positions, one for each scale degree.
A vertical three-column staff read from the bottom up.
A five-line stave read as a body seen from behind.
Codified hand positions used in Indian classical dance.
Bold coloured lines painted over a white face.
Full-face patterned colour identifying a role.
A carved wooden mask slightly smaller than the face.