What NEA Notation Is Not
New Epoch art Notation is neither an attempt to bridge the gap between visual art and music by assigning musical tones to colours (see Visual Music and Music Visualization), nor one of the many visual musical notations designed over the past 50 years as an alternative to traditional music notation. It is neither a visual art form exploiting the aesthetics of musical notation (see Eye Music), nor a color notation (see Munsell Color System), although it does incorporate a unique color notation that does not use a color wheel. It is not "notation printing" a term often associated with the printing of music notation. Finally, it is not Painting by Numbers.
Unlike many of the general movement notations created during the 20th century such as Labanotation, NEA notation is not an augmented rearrangement of traditional music notation. NEA was built from the page up, to facilitate pure visual or graphic communication, using physical media and pigmented color.
New Epoch Art Notation differs from Bezier curves on many levels. First, NEA is not an algorithm, it is an abstract conceptual environment in which many constructs can be built, including algorithms. Second, it is not a form of mathematics tailored to define or generate geometric shapes. It is a purely graphic language designed to build complex forms without use of any mathematics. In terms of education theory, NEA keys into Visual-Spatial intelligence rather than Logical-Mathematical intelligence, (see Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner).
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