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This project aims to preserve IRIDEM 2, a polychrome graphic score, as a historical document in experimental music notation.

June 13, 2026Open Access

IRIDEM 2 (1991) for Clarinet and Trombone — Archive Edition 2026

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This project aims to preserve IRIDEM 2, a polychrome graphic score, as a historical document in experimental music notation.
Digital reproduction of the original graphic score from 1991.
Exploration of the relationships between musical notation and visual structures.
Contextual placement within the larger framework of intermedia art.
Provides insight into the evolving relationship between sound and visual representation in music.
Highlights themes relevant to the artist's later works in audiovisual and generative practices.

Abstract

🎼 IRIDEM 2 (1991) for Clarinet and Trombone IRIDEM 2 (1991) is a polychrome graphic score for clarinet and trombone by Sergio Maltagliati. The work belongs to the artist's early research into the relationships between musical notation, colour, visual structure and performance. 🎨 The score combines fragments of traditional notation with coloured graphic trajectories, creating a visual environment that functions simultaneously as a musical composition and as an autonomous image. 🎵 Conceived during a period of transition between instrumental composition and later investigations into Visual Music, the work anticipates themes that would become central in the artist's audiovisual and generative practice throughout the 1990s and 2000s. 📄 This publication presents a digital reproduction of the original score as a historical document within the broader context of experimental notation and intermedia art. Archive Edition 2026 en IRIDEM 2 (1991) è una partitura grafica policroma per clarinetto e trombone realizzata da Sergio Maltagliati. L'opera appartiene alle prime ricerche dell'autore sulle relazioni tra notazione musicale, colore, struttura visiva e interpretazione sonora. 🎨 La partitura combina frammenti di scrittura musicale tradizionale con traiettorie grafiche colorate, costruendo uno spazio visivo che può essere letto contemporaneamente come composizione musicale e come immagine autonoma. 🎵 Concepite in una fase di passaggio tra la composizione strumentale e le successive ricerche sulla Visual Music, queste sperimentazioni anticipano temi che diventeranno centrali nella produzione audiovisiva e generativa dell'artista negli anni Novanta e Duemila. 📄 Questa pubblicazione presenta una riproduzione digitale della partitura originale come documento storico nell'ambito della notazione sperimentale e dell'arte intermediale. Edizione d'Archivio 2026 👤 Author / Autore: Sergio Maltagliati🏛️ Affiliation / Affiliazione: Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence (Italy)📜 License / Licenza: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)🌐 Website: www.visualmusic.it📧 Contact: sergio.maltagliati@gmail.com

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