Yes, Mark Lombardi’s work is amazing! I think he was an amazing artist, and I show his work to my students often. I especially love telling the story of how FBI agents showed up after September 11 attacks, at the museum, to study one of Lombardi’s drawings, looking for clues in understanding networks related to (then) little known Osama Bin Laden.  I can see how his work somehow relates to the subject of this thread, as it was essentially a kind of complex notation system. Not musical notation, ...