Softover, A4, 100pp
smallest functional unit, December 2025
In all, within these pages, there is a reimagining and repurposing of traditional score-making, utilising new and old technology to pursue and produce inventive unconventional outcomes. One thing all these pieces share is a fascination and curiosity with inventive strategies with which to make music, coordinate actions and interpret ideas.
We would like to emphasise, as we have done in our earlier editions, that the pieces here are presented to you in the hope that they will be explored and performed—deciphered and investigated—offering performers, interpreters and listeners alike the opportunity to engage with, and gain insight into new and sometimes challenging ideas about music making and performance.
smallest functional unit was founded in 2020 by Tony Buck, Mazen Kerbaj, Magda Mayas, Ute Wassermann and Racha Gharbieh with the aim of performing and publishing unconventional, hybrid notational formats and graphic scores by international composers. The publication will appear as Graphème, a series with a thematic focus.
