WEBINAR
Thursday 14th November 12:30-13:30
“Finding sound in the archive: a musical approach to exploring non-musical sources”
Presented by Martin Scheuregger
Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity was a collaborative project between visual artist Danica Maier and composer Martin Scheuregger. The project takes a single historical lace draft from the Nottingham Lace Archive as the starting point for new live and installation-based visual-musical works. This lace draft would have originally been used to programme a mechanical lace machine – it is, in essence, a set of graphical instructions. For this project it has been repurposed to create instructions – in graphic and traditional notation – for a group of musicians. Overall, the work explores an iterative re-encoding process, embracing imperfection and glitch as an intrinsic part of its aesthetic. Key ideas of transcribing, encoding and re-encoding are explored through our compositional and graphical interventions, and through the musical interpretation of the results. This talk explores the ways in which the original archival object was transformed into musical work, and what this might say about how archives may be reconsidered as artistic provocations.
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