Abstract
This chapter explores music notations of the Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim in which she uses musical symbols to notate the American Sign Language (ASL) that possess—in her eyes—musicality. Kim adapts the notation style of gloss by focusing on two aspects of sign language in particular: visual sonority and visual rhyme, which are considered as poetic and musical elements of sign language. If we consider that, in conventional music notation, the musical symbol is indeed a visual object, but is undoubtedly linked to the sound that is heard, Kim's work challenges the relationship between music notation and the hearing body that is usually taken for granted. Furthermore, Kim's music notations allow us to ‘read’ her musical ideas and imaginations that come from the perspective of sign language, which is rooted in Deaf culture.
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