I just love doing a graphic score project in the spring when student are craving “free time.” In past years, this rule-free notation was stressful for some students but now they’re all used to being musically creative and confident. They can work solo/in a group, use any instrument they’d know how to take out and produce sound on, create any kind of graphic score they can imagine, and choose to perform it for the class or just for me. Then we exchange music – the scores in these pictures required others to decode and calculate!