Painting Music – One-Page Score Project

One-Page Score Project: Sunshine Coast

Painting Music – One-Page Score Project – Sunshine Coast edition

Co-presented with LABORATORIO

Live premieres: 12 + 19 March 2021; 4PM PDT

WATCH SESSION #1  WATCH SESSION #2 

Friday, March 12, 2021; 4PM PST – Watch on YouTube

Matthew Ariaratnam (music), Allyson Clay (score) – When ennui has a throbbing soul (in three parts)
Parmela Attariwala (music), Luciana Santos (score) – Earth dreams
Terri Hron (music), Terra Long (score) – Marked in dark purple
David Benchekroun (music), ESCE (score)
Robyn Jacob (music), Janet Oxley (score) – Start
Meteoric (music), Derek von Essen (score) – Trajectory / Transformation
 

Friday March 19, 2021; 4PM PDT – Watch on YouTube

Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa (music), Trudi Diening (score) – From Dark to Light
Stefan Smulovitz (music), Nadina Tandy (score) – Acorn
Sundar Subramanian (music), Marilyn Browning (score) – Would you open this door?
Anne-F Jacques (music), Noé Rodríguez (score)
Sam Meadahl (music), Maeve Talbot-Kelly (score)
Graham Ord (music), Lorelei Pepi (score) – Gradiance

Graphic Notation (def.): a rogue representation of music using liberated symbols;
a form of freedom; a visual work of art with transformative aural potential.

This popular workshop series encourages everyone to discover the playful and engaging exercise of imagination through sonic and visual perception. We expanded the reach of this edition to the Sunshine Coast by partnering with LABORATORIO.

Participants from BC’s Sunshine Coast (and one from Brazil!) were invited to learn, explore and create all new graphic scores that will be interpreted by 12 exceptional musicians from Vancouver, the Sunshine Coast, Montreal and Ottawa.

Led by Giorgio Magnanensi, Painting Music was a workshop focused on the use of graphic notation where signs and symbols can be used to represent sounds, textures and various kinds of sonic events.

Following a one-day workshop on graphic scoring participants created original graphic scores then were paired with a musician. During a second workshop they discussed their newly composed one-page scores. From this, the musicians will create a piece based on the new score.

The final pieces premiered live on YouTube on March 12 + 19 at 4PM PST.

PREMIERED – FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2021; 4PM PST

0:00 Matthew Ariaratnam (music), Allyson Clay (score) – “When ennui has a throbbing soul (in three parts)”
10:19 Parmela Attariwala (music), Luciana Santos (score) – “Earth Dreams”
17:13 Terri Hron (music), Terra Long (score) – “Marked in dark purple”
24:07 David Benchekroun (music), ESCE (score)
30:16 Robyn Jacob (music), Janet Oxley (score) – “Start”
35:57 Meteoric (music), Derek von Essen (score) – “Trajectory/Transformation”

PREMIERED – FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021; 4PM PDT

0:00 Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa (music), Trudi Diening (score) – “From Dark to Light”
7:23 Stefan Smulovitz (music), Nadina Tandy (score) – “Acorn”
10:57 Sundar Subramanian (music), Marilyn Browning (score) – “Would you open this door?”
16:13 Anne-F Jacques (music), Noé Rodríguez (score)
21:48 Sam Meadahl (music), Maeve Talbot-Kelly (score)
30:35 Graham Ord (music), Lorelei Pepi (score) – “Gradiance”

LABORATORIO

Vancouver New Music offers the One-Page Score Project and other workshops and community events throughout the year. If you’re interested in finding out when our next one happens, keep in the loop by signing up to our email list.

Top image: Clockwise from top left, scores by Allyson Clay, Elizabeth Edwards, Luciana Santos, Terra Long, Nadina Tandy, Trudi Diening, Noé Rodríguez, Marilyn Browning, Maeve Talbot-Kelly, Lorelei Pipa, Janet Oxley and Derek von Essen.