Vancouver New Music premieres One-Page Score Project and Polydimensional Scores
The new collaboration, being released December 8 and 15, pairs professional musicians with ECUAD students
Creativity, innovation, and curiosity are at the heart of everything Vancouver New Music does. In embracing the rhizomatic expansion of current modes of sound and music creation, VNM curates not only works but also practices.
The One-Page Score Project is one such initiative. The popular ongoing series of workshops and presentations introduces people to graphic notation and art music through open, creative expression and collaboration among all participants.
The One-Page Score Project’s newest collaboration is between professional musicians and students at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
This past November, musicians and composers from Vancouver, Kamloops, and Montreal collaborated with ECUAD students to create 14 One-Page Score and Polydimensional Score pieces.
Guided by Vancouver New Music artistic director Giorgio Magnanensi, students from a section of Keith Langergraber’s online FNDT165: Core Interdisciplinary Studio course and Julie Andreyev’s online MDIA300: Media, Sound, Ecology course learned about and experimented with graphic notation, sound, composition, gesture, and figure.
With graphic notation, signs and symbols can be used to represent sounds, textures, and various types of sonic events. Composers don’t need any prior knowledge of how to write or read traditional musical notation—just a desire to create and explore sound.
Langergraber’s Foundation-level students worked in groups to create six One-Page Scores—visual images that played with colour, shape, and composition.
The Polydimensional Scores created by Andreyev’s upper-level class took the graphic notation of the One-Page Scores in a different direction, incorporating temporally based and spatially situated composition techniques, like soundwalking and environmental listening, field recording, sculpture, film, and performance.
Students were then paired with a professional musician, who created a sonic interpretation of the score, with each sound artist contributing their unique instrumentation and musical style.
Vancouver New Music is excited to announce the premiere of these 14 new video/sound score pieces.
The new pieces will premiere on two dates. On December 8, the first group premieres works during a live online watch party and chat. The second release is on December 15. Times will be announced at Vancouver New Music, where you can find more information about this dynamic ongoing project.
This post was sponsored by Vancouver New Music.