For a puzzle I am trying to solve, I have to find a certain artist which should be derived from a piece of 'music'.

The only thing I am given is this image:
[![The notes A5, D5, E4, C5, C4, G4, G5, 8th rest, D4, B4, D4, G5, G4, half rest](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IkiBd.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IkiBd.png)

The other puzzles were all code related, for example transforming pictures of croissants and dogs into binary, then converting the binary to ASCII. Another puzzle was taking licence plates, looking up which brand they belonged to and then taking all the first letters of these brands to form a new brand.

I therefore have the feeling that it is not simply playing the music to find the artist (I also already did try that). But probably some way of decoding music. I am not even sure if you actually have to be really good at reading notes, but since I am not so myself, maybe someone who is could have a better insight then me.

Thanks in advance if you are able to help me any further :)

EDIT:
The 120 bpm is not orignally from the puzzle, that is something which was added by me when I typed over the notes in a programm to hear what it would sound like.

EDIT:
The original picture (5646516514564.png):
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eyepl.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eyepl.png)