Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity – audio album
(2024)
author(s): Martin Scheuregger, Danica Maier
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition is the online, open-access audio album of 'Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity' by Danica Maier and Martin Scheuregger. The album allows you to play full ensemble versions of the project's two pieces, and also mix your own versions of each piece by combining and balancing the individual instruments. It accompanies the publication of a related 40-page book on the project from Beam Editions.
Sculpting Air In The Sub Habitat
(2023)
author(s): Lotte Anker
published in: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
Sculpting Air in The Sub Habitat (subtitle: Texture and Form in Composition for Larger Ensemble of Improvisers) is an exploration and unfolding of creative processes in composing for a larger ensemble (6+ musicians) of improvisers as well as the processes in the ensemble rehearsals and concerts. In Sculpting Air, I am both composer and performer. I work with an ensemble created for this project: Sub Habitat.
Sub Habitat members are: Lotte Anker (DK), Mazen Kerbaj (GER/LBN), Katt Hernandez (S/USA), Nina de Heney (S), Sten Sandell (S), Andrea Neumann (GER), Burkhard Beins (GER)
Sculpting Air grew out of a need to deepen, (re)examine and challenge my compositional practice (including aesthetic preferences and inclinations) within a larger ensemble of improvisers, and I went into the project looking for something: more or less vague, fragmented notions of particular sonic and textural qualities and structural concepts. Notions of a higher degree of connectedness between predetermined and undetermined elements in composition etc.
The project is based on my own compositional work and 4 ensemble Sessions and Session concerts during 2020-22. It includes examples and reflections from these processes, and through them I try to articulate answers to the following research questions:
Based on the concepts of texture, MODE and LIBRARY, how can I develop new compositional tools for a larger ensemble of improvisers in a music that reflects the sonic palette and expression of the individual musician, the expression and identity of the ensemble as an entity, and my artistic intention?
Including:
How can these tools be deployed as sculpting materials in a large form piece, where the predetermined and indeterminate elements mutually reinforce each other and thus help to extend the musical space?
How can I explore the sonic potential of the ensemble in dialogue with the musicians?
How does the ensemble's overall expression inform my compositional work and vice versa?
In score form, how can I develop a specific vocabulary, concepts and notational forms that clarify my artistic intention and convey the balance between the predetermined and indeterminate elements of the composition?
Composition of graphic and sonic works through the improvisers' co-creation
(2021)
author(s): Laura Toxvaerd
published in: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
Taking my compositions as a point of departure, the project investigates the improvisers’ co-creation in the compositional process. The composer (in this case, me) explores how improvisers’ ideas can be integrated into the development of the compositions, and explores what impact the integration has on the works of art. In the project, graphic scores are being designed, through the means of which I am seeking to bring forth new aesthetic forms of expressions. Along the way in this project, I have created new compositions that came to be drawn out as scores, which were continually adapted and re-arranged on the basis of the improvising musicians’ concert performances of the existing compositions. The working method could be characterized as an iterative artistic developmental process, which shuttled back and forth between my own compositional work, together with the design and elaboration of the graphic scores, and videotaped rehearsals and performances of my compositions with the collaborating musicians.
What colour is Signature?
(2019)
author(s): etherlinna
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
What Colour is Signature? acts as a platform with a score to play and experiment with different compositional structures. The platform aims to create a non-intensive means to enjoy the possible mental representations you may experience when listening to sounds that negotiate the amount of noise and information.
Fluxus and Avant Garde art in 1960s often explored the relation between noise and silence and how it is communicated within a space (during the so called ‘happenings’). Noise (or the source of randomness) shifts the listener’s perception to the non-sense that art often produces, and brings into play the attempt of the mind to focus on the mental representations it is creating. Therefore, the non-sense (noise and silence) in itself acts as a measurement of information.
Momentum: experiential development in sound composition
(2019)
author(s): Nat Grant
published in: Research Catalogue
Momentum is an online, cumulative sound art and composition project, created and curated by Nat Grant over the course of 2012-19.
The interdisciplinary conceptual composition process
(last edited: 2021)
author(s): Linde Tillmanns
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
How does one translate concepts like Doughnut Economics into music and video? How can a performance create a safe and non/judgmental space for an open and constructive dialogue about big and difficult topics?
This is my journey on attempting to create such a performance; with a physical band, electronics and video. I am composing on different levels, collaborating with a video artist and producer, as well as curating the process.
SOLO and PROZESSION
(last edited: 2016)
author(s): Karin DE FLEYT
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Published on 31 Aug 2016
This exposition represents some of my research project outcomes showcasing different performances and lecture/recitals on Solo & Prozession by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Presentations from the guest speakers at the Stockhausen Symposium Day I organised on 16 September 2016 are added to give an overview of a nowadays context to these compositions from the sixties.
This exposition is the online, open-access audio album of 'Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity' by Danica Maier and Martin Scheuregger. The album allows you to play full ensemble versions of the project's two pieces, and also mix your own versions of each piece by combining and balancing the individual instruments. It accompanies the publication of a related 40-page book on the project from Beam Editions.open exposition comments (0)
What Colour is Signature? acts as a platform with a score to play and experiment with different compositional structures. The platform aims to create a non-intensive means to enjoy the possible mental representations you may experience when listening to sounds that negotiate the amount of noise and information. Fluxus and Avant Garde art in 1960s often explored the relation between noise and silence and how it is communicated within a space (during the so called ‘happenings’). Noise (or the source of randomness) shifts the listener’s perception to the non-sense that art often produces, and brings into play the attempt of the mind to focus on the mental representations it is creating. Therefore, the non-sense (noise and silence) in itself acts as a measurement of information.open exposition comments (0)
Momentum is an online, cumulative sound art and composition project, created and curated by Nat Grant over the course of 2012-19.open exposition comments (0)