BEATBOX CODE NOTATION

A new approach to notating beatbox vocal percussion in line with traditional staff notation

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The Sampler, Sound and Music UK

UK Beatbox Championships, Multivocalism Sparking 5th Element Organix Academix?

February 22nd, 2020

Nicola Jane Buttigieg recently attended the UK Beatbox Championships and found herself considering the future of beatbox and how it might integrate with other notated music.

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An Evening of A Cappella with Up in the Air

Live at Soho House 7.30pm 19th August, 2019
76 Dean Street Covent Garden

Live at the Oak Room, h Club London 7.30pm 20th August, 2019
24 Endell Street, Covent Garden

The US a cappella group Up in the Air performs an eclectic program of popular music in this beautiful and intimate live music venue. Featured in this performance will be music developed in conjunction with London composer Nicola Jane Buttigieg, demonstrating her new cutting-edge approach to beatbox notation and the use of beatboxing in music education. Also featured will be the new work Shortest Way Home with music written by Nicola Jane Buttigieg, and text inspired by the speeches and book by her cousin, US 2020 presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg. The program will also include creative vocal arrangements of classic and current hit popular songs, including songs from the Spotify playlist Buttijams, put together by Mayor Pete himself.

Come join us for a relaxing, entertaining and potentially historic evening! RSVP to our guest list at contact@beatboxcodenotation.com

British Music Collection

Beatbox Code: A Precursor to Evolving Standard Notation?

April 4th, 2019

Nicola Jane Buttigieg introduces her ‘Beatbox Notation Loop Builder’ - which explores alternative ways to approach musical notation.

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Fun Palaces: Tell Your Tale Through Beatbox!

Saturday October 6th, 2018

Victoria Music Library 11am-12pm
160 Buckingham Palace Rd, Belgravia, London SW1W 9UD

Pimlico Library 3pm-4pm
Lupus St, Pimlico, London SW1V 3AT

Explore telling your story through beatbox with musician and composer Nicola Jane Buttigieg and writer Mark Heywood. Join them for an interactive session that explores building beatbox patterns into stylised grooves, that accompany your original lyrics, be they told through rhyme, rap or riff!

Fun Palaces Website

The Writing Salon: Get Your Groove On

7.30pm Monday September 17th, 2018

Hospital Club Oak Room (nearest Tube, Covent Garden)
24 Endell Street WC2H 9HQ

The Writing Salon returns after its summer hiatus and this month we have our biggest ever event. We’re going large as we delve into the world of beatboxing and what it can teach writers. Join novelist and screenwriter Mark Heywood as he welcomes a series of very special guests, not least the very talented musician Nicola Jane Buttigieg who will be helping us explore how beatboxing can be incorporated into dramatic composition. We’ll be looking at what beatboxing teaches us about narrative structure and storytelling, and how the human voice is capable of producing more distinct sounds than any other instrument – and yet no formal method for notating these sounds exists. Until now.

Join us for a thrilling session that combines performance art, character, and a very modern approach to storytelling. And, as ever, there will be a practical element as we ask you to help write lyrics whilst a beatboxer provides the backing track. Whether you are a writer, musician, or simply a fan of both, you won’t want to miss out on this latest Writing Salon Oak Room Takeover event.

Book your place at contact@beatboxcodenotation.com

Your Guide to Beatbox Code Notation

2.30pm - 3.30pm Saturday September 15th, 2018

Westminster Reference Library (nearest Tube, Leicester Square)
35 Saint Martin's Street WC2H 7HP

Following international postgraduate studies, London composer and computer science teacher Nicola Jane Buttigieg presents an illustrated talk with demonstrations, on a new approach to notating beatbox vocal percussion in line with traditional notation. Within the age of tonal music, traditional staff notation is the standard for reading and writing vocal and instrumental music. This seminar-workshop investigates its extended potential to more accurately represent today's infinite number of electronically produced timbre manipulations using integrated, programmable code, able to be performed at sight or inputted into computer systems alike.

Book your place here on Eventbrite

Learn to Beatbox through Code!

11.30am - 12.30pm Saturday September 8th, 2018

Victoria Music Library (nearest Tube, Victoria)
160 Buckingham Palace Road SW1W 9UD

Ever wondered how the human mouth can imitate electronic music, or how a traditional musician might be able to understand the mechanics of beatbox? Join this free introductory workshop led by London-based composer and computer science teacher Nicola Jane Buttigieg, explaining an new approach to the basics of coded rhythm and phonetics. Further your skills by having a turn performing some accompanying beat sequences to familiar contemporary tunes. Suitable for vocal musicans and teachers interested in this developing genre.

Book your place at contact@beatboxcodenotation.com

© Nicola Jane Buttigieg 2020