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Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity is 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 publication forms a part of this project, as it offers short insights into the work from a variety of perspectives. It also contains images of the scores; photographs of performances, workshops, rehearsals and exhibitions; a timeline of key project events; and a link to the online audio album of the project. • Contents [1] • Introduction – Danica Maier & Martin Scheuregger [2–3] • 'One Vinyl, Two Sides: Repeating Variations and Difference' – Danica Maier [4–6] • 'Sound Making' – Martin Scheuregger [7–9] • 'Thm, A Transcelation' – Daniela Cascella [10–12] • 'Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity: notation, materiality, temporality' – Lauren Redhead [13–15] • Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity (Side A), Danica Maier – images [16–27] • Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity (Side B), Martin Scheuregger – images [28–30] • Score, research and performance images [31–34] • Rehearsal & performance images [35–37] • Historical lace draft [38–39] • Link to audio album [40]

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    Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity is 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 publication forms a part of this project, as it offers short insights into the work from a variety of perspectives. It also contains images of the scores; photographs of performances, workshops, rehearsals and exhibitions; a timeline of key project events; and a link to the online audio album of the project. • Contents [1] • Introduction – Danica Maier & Martin Scheuregger [2–3] • 'One Vinyl, Two Sides: Repeating Variations and Difference' – Danica Maier [4–6] • 'Sound Making' – Martin Scheuregger [7–9] • 'Thm, A Transcelation' – Daniela Cascella [10–12] • 'Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity: notation, materiality, temporality' – Lauren Redhead [13–15] • Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity (Side A), Danica Maier – images [16–27] • Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity (Side B), Martin Scheuregger – images [28–30] • Score, research and performance images [31–34] • Rehearsal & performance images [35–37] • Historical lace draft [38–39] • Link to audio album [40]
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