This small compendium enables us to view and analyse key elements and design options of contemporary orchestra music beyond traditional notation in the five-line stave system.
From the spectrum of possible states, movements and events in the orchestra pit described below, Norbert Stein has developed an artistically graphic sign language for his Pata compositions that is based on musical practice. This enables the generation of clear musical situations and events for an orchestra and the control of complex musical processes. Thanks to its openness with regard to which instruments are included in an ensemble, an infinite variety of resulting sounds is conceivable for the production of a graphic Pata ensemble.
To give the individual expressiveness of an improvising orchestra pit an opportunity to develop its personality, its defining composition modules are designed to maintain the balance between “as specific as compositionally necessary” and “as open as necessary for a lively orchestra“.