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