Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity Audio album


Music by Danica Maier and Martin Scheuregger • Performed by Dark Inventions


This open-access album is the final audio version of Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity, a visual art and music project by Danica Maier and Martin Scheuregger.

The album supplements a 40-page publication from Beam Editions that explores the project through four critical texts, photographs of the project’s workshops, exhibitions and concerts, documentation of the musical scores, and a timeline of key events.

This album contains studio recordings of the two parts of the project: Side A (by Danica Maier) and Side B (by Martin Scheuregger). Each of the instrumental parts can be heard separately or played together, and their individual volumes and playback speed can be adjusted.[1] This freedom mimics a live performance of the project in which varying combinations of live musicians and record players would be heard. A full mix of each Side if also provided here.

For more context on this project, see Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity – mimesis and non-repetition through notation and performance[2] and to view more extensive documentation, view the the project’s Research Catalogue exposition.


Full performance: Side A


Full performance: Side B



Separate instruments: Side A

Flute


Clarinet


Violin


Cello


Separate instruments: Side B

Flute


Clarinet


Violin


Cello


Credits

Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity is a project by Danica Maier and Martin Scheuregger, funded by Arts Council England, with support from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Lincoln.

Recordings by Dark Inventions: Neil Thomas Smith (flute), Jonathan Sage (clarinet), Rebecca Smith (violin), Cecily Smith-Nesbitt (cello). Produced by Christopher Leedham; edited by Martin Scheuregger and Danica Maier.


  1. Some of this functionality may be limited if viewing on a mobile device. Please note, there are sections of up to thirty seconds of silence in the separate instrumental tracks of Side A. ↩︎

  2. Maier, Danica and Scheuregger, Martin. 2023. “Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity.” ECHO, a journal of music, thought and technology 4. doi: 10.47041/NRKT8828 ↩︎