Polydimensional Scores: Losing Footsteps

Polydimensional Scores: Losing Footsteps

Score by Harry Leshgold
Music and video by Sara Gold

Notes from Harry Leshgold:
This field recording score is intended as a proportional aural representation of the feeling of becoming lost while walking in nature. Performers will listen to the field recording score via headphones and interpret as they see fit for performance.

Notes from Sara Gold:
Recorded with a Rode NT2G shotgun condenser microphone through a Sound Devices 302 field mixer to Sound Devices 633 recorder and a ball of 1/4 inch magnetic tape manually performed. The original audio was monitored in one ear and headphone as I played along with the ball of magnetic tape, listening for reference in the other ear with a second pair of headphones, both layered upon my head. I wanted to be methodical as requested in the score, focusing on 1/4 inch magnetic recording tape as a single sound source. For the emergence of the bird sounds earlier on in the recording a section of tape was manually scrubbed across the tape unit play head. The sounds were combined in Ableton with a bit of eq and paired with the video recorded and assembled in iMovie.

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