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Work Overview
Copy-make is a demonstration video about the physicality of
sound and proposes new methodologies of working relationships
between composer and performers in an open and visually centred
collaborative approach. You can read further about this project
in a paper in Leonardo Music Journal, Volume 30, 2020.
This installation came about in a workshop where the premise
was to explore notions of perception and music, musical
preconditions, 'music without sound', and 'composition beyond
music'. My response was to make visible the invisible world of
music through a display of its gestural processes. This allowed
for a transference of a diverse array of parameters involving;
rotation, closing, expanding, roughening, smoothing,
demarcation, recursion, inversion, punctuation, dynamic change,
velocity, and duration.
Sound and movement are recorded on a glass surface to be used
as a multi-screen video score for musicians to use with an
instrument or sounding object. Text, numbers and symbols are
written over videos containing gestural movements - a technique
called digital annotation that has been used in the field of
dance and anthropology. The emphasis is on the line-semantics
of the performers movements. A gestural matrix allows for
multiple points of focus for the performer to reiterate,
interpret and retrace actions within a given frame (outlined
here using yellow tape). This project was intended to be
sound-based, but there is scope for it to be explored within a
choreographical context. The video theorises potential uses of
this way of working that could have multiple performance
outcomes. It is a platform for experimentation and for
realising a fixed work, and is open to anyone who wants to
discover its possible uses.
Work Details
Year: 2015
Instrumentation: Solo performer, with an open instrumentation. Laptop running Max, camera, window, transparent paper, tape
First performance: Feb 15. Composition Beyond Music, Impuls Music Academy, Graz, Austria.
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc associated with this work:
Some composers that influenced this work include: Mauricio Kagel who produced a video score out of his film Ludwig van (1970), which consists of staged footage inside Beethoven’s music studio. The performers play musical fragments in the sequence as they appear on screen, sometimes with clefs missing and score fragments upside down. William Forsythe's Alien:a(c)tion (1992) used a process involving scenes taken from the film Aliens 2 (1986). Performers copied the actors in the film to influences the orientation of the dancers. Jennifer Walshe's Dirty White Fields (2002) uses videos, images, and text as a process for composition.
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