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Of its droll notational style — canny observations yoked to a stream-of-consciousness method — A.N.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2020

It includes a notational system of peculiar abstract paintings Smith makes with colors and shapes that lead to different kinds of musical activities, although exactly how that happens was never quite clear.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2019

What Akita shares with the notational composers who dominate “Music After the Fall” is his distance from the center: noise music is, by its nature, an underground culture.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

Also, I deliberately omitted mentions of added-7’s in my chord descriptions because of an inconsistency in notational unity between classiclers and jazzers, omitted also for irrelevance.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2014

Newton’s method of differentiation was based on a notational trick: he let the fluxions change, but he only let them change infinitesimally.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife