Panoramic scores

My panoramic scores reimagine sheet music as a sculptural medium. These metres-wide performative graphic notations, inspired by immersive landscapes, are designed to be on a Christo-esque scale, running through the performance space, the performers moving to read their parts. The single line described by a path through a landscape is experienced differently each time it is traversed. In these works sounds drift in and out of earshot, and, like a country path, the score reads in both forwards and reverse, or to the East and West.

IMAGIRO Landmannalaugar

for four mobile instruments and 23 meter long panoramic score

From a single movement, a single plane, harmonies unfold, like origami. In a same way a choreography unfolds as the performing musicians move through the space playing their parts.

Commissioned by DAR DAR Lithuania for ensemble Synaesthesis

I love the sheer physicality of making this work, such a change from moving my fingers on a laptop keyboard all day. It felt right to struggle with a heavy roll of paper larger than me and with brush strokes I needed to walk to finish, to trust my intuition and feel the music I had in my mind through my entire body.

Central (2018)

for mobile musicians, singers with tune pipes, footsteps, a choreographed ground plan and 48 metres panoramic score

A very stylised and choreographed production where each performer in turn reaches a timed segment within the score, setting the pace of the performance.

Caponier (2018)

for mobile instruments, singers, footsteps, free newspapers, a crowd, choreographed ground plan and 26 metres panoramic score

Inspired by the London underground rush hour, this piece was performed amongst a crowd, the audience, in the underground tunnel of Newhaven Fort.