Polydimensional Scores: Crow Stone Tone Poem (2016-20)

Polydimensional Scores: Crow Stone Tone Poem (2016-20)

Score by Julie Andreyev and a Crow
Music and video by Giorgio Magnanensi

Notes from Julie Andreyev:
A collaboration with a free-living crow who lives in the territory that includes my home. This project is based on interspecies play using stones, initiated by the adult crow who gifted me a pebble as acknowledgement for water I left for his family. The ten stone arrangements that we created are adapted into a score.

Notes from Giorgio Magnanensi:
In approaching Julie’s score I was thinking again and reconsidering the idea of matter as passive, raw or inert material. Stones, in spite of their apparent static and inanimate presence, have powerful sonic and affective qualities that resonate through their material agency in full and tactile viscerality. These are qualities I’m extremely attracted by, both as forms of activating creative energy and as poetics of engagement.

The stones and the images to which Julie’s story associates them, become here actants within a score morphed into a polydimensional instrument. As such, the score displays itself sonically while inviting us to engage and play with an enhanced creative agency: an invitation to move, be moved and imagine, while discovering beauty beyond any aesthetic discourse.

Presented by Vancouver New Music in association with Emily Carr University of Art and Design.