SCORES: Propositions for Notating Performance
May 21 - June 3
Rochester Folk Art Guild, Middlesex, NY
Tuition $600 *includes food and lodging | tuition and travel subsidies available
A score provides instructions for how something should be performed, played, realized and manifested. However a score is not entirely defined by the performance it instructs and exists in its own right – often as a visual or physical object separate from the lived performance. This session explores the unique set of questions scores pose around repetition, continuity, authorship, ownership, and context.
While scores have a long tradition within music practices; during this session we will explore non-traditional scoring practices. Examples include CA Conrad, Carolee Schneemann, Pauline Oliveros, Fluxus, and Sol LeWitt. We invite artists interested in working with scores across mediums and disciplines including but not limited to scores for performance, reading, writing, dance, thought, movement, dialogue, theatre, digital arts, experimental music practices, and the sciences.
By expanding the pedagogical realm of scoring we will collectively consider: What notation techniques are available for scores (graphic, sonic, linguistic, etc...)? How does the way a score is presented affect its performance? Historically, how have artists across disciplines employed scores in their practices? How do scores complicate notions of authorship by changing the relationship between the artist and the performer?
Alongside structured workshops in which we will explore these questions, this session will give each participant a chance to work on an individual score. Time and support will be provided for individuals to perform, revise, collaborate, and experiment as they develop their scores. Our hope is that by the end of the session residents will have a chance to both perform their score and include a written or visual component of their score in a co-authored book
SCORES will take place in Middlesex, NY near the Finger Lakes region, named for a series of 11 long glacial lakes that resemble human hands. On the property itself, participants will have ample space to explore outside as well as work in two indoor workshop spaces (movement friendly) as well as various smaller indoor spaces. There is access to wifi throughout the property, a pond to swim in, and an outdoor sauna.
While scores have a long tradition within music practices; during this session we will explore non-traditional scoring practices. Examples include CA Conrad, Carolee Schneemann, Pauline Oliveros, Fluxus, and Sol LeWitt. We invite artists interested in working with scores across mediums and disciplines including but not limited to scores for performance, reading, writing, dance, thought, movement, dialogue, theatre, digital arts, experimental music practices, and the sciences.
By expanding the pedagogical realm of scoring we will collectively consider: What notation techniques are available for scores (graphic, sonic, linguistic, etc...)? How does the way a score is presented affect its performance? Historically, how have artists across disciplines employed scores in their practices? How do scores complicate notions of authorship by changing the relationship between the artist and the performer?
Alongside structured workshops in which we will explore these questions, this session will give each participant a chance to work on an individual score. Time and support will be provided for individuals to perform, revise, collaborate, and experiment as they develop their scores. Our hope is that by the end of the session residents will have a chance to both perform their score and include a written or visual component of their score in a co-authored book
SCORES will take place in Middlesex, NY near the Finger Lakes region, named for a series of 11 long glacial lakes that resemble human hands. On the property itself, participants will have ample space to explore outside as well as work in two indoor workshop spaces (movement friendly) as well as various smaller indoor spaces. There is access to wifi throughout the property, a pond to swim in, and an outdoor sauna.
