Contemporary Music Notation Problem

In this short article I am not going to discuss contemporary & avant-garde music history. Only you need to know it is not very new. Arnold Schönberg or John Cage may be the pioneer of contemporary music. Nowadays IRCAM is leading the new music style and sounds.

Contemporary & avant-garde music gives freedom to express feelings and thoughts together at the same time. Also composer can discuss any idea or criticize an incident or phenomenon at the same time. This makes contemporary & avant-garde music very powerful language.

However there is a big problem. Which is notation. If there is no notation you can not carry the music to orchestra and even to the future. Classical notation is not enough for contemporary music. So some composers & orchestra use graphical notation and some use graphical and classical notation together. However this technique makes the composition unique. But to be unique is not good to carry to other orchestras and to the future. 

So there should be common & global language for notation as happened in the past with classical notation.

I think I have an idea may help all composers and orchestras.

If you dig the problem than you will find two important missing parts in classical notation why it is not suitable for new music. Those are articulations and pitch at the same time.

If there are all possible articulations of an instrument with smybols than it may adapt into classical common notation. However free areas should be added also with symbols to be added in the future and/or for the musician improvisation.

Let's take violin.
Composer would like to add knocks. So articulation should be kn.
Composer would like to add knocks and E minor at the same time. kn and e minor should be written into paper for violin. So What do we need? We need standard notation lines with G Key or F key but also Articulation lines.

Well, if composer would like to write the sound from upper high tones to lower tones slowly not fast for example you need to add another symbol bow-up-down (in short bud) but also slowly (in short budS). Composer can not write the exact movement of bow but express how musician should play.

Graphical notation does not help very much to be common notation language however symbolic expression may add into classical notation so this makes it global notation for any musician and orchestra. Symbolic expression may come across to graphical symbols like used in maths. 

 Hope this helps.