Scores and Maps A score is not music. A score is a silent document made of paper and ink or of pixels on a screen. A score is, though, as Philip Thomas describes it, a ‘prescription for action’. That is, it’s a script or a recipe that enables things to happen in a particular way […]
on 4 July 2024
Spurn Point transect walk done, wet clothes dried and feet warmed up, the next question is: how to use this sound-material as the basis for a composition? And this then prompts further questions about how to treat those sounds (which is partly an ethical issue), what do those sounds do in terms of prompting (or demanding) further […]
on 30 April 2024
What does Spurn Point sound like? What does a 3-mile strip of land, jutting into the North Sea, sound like? How can we get a sense of how a large area sounds, when sound has a finite circumference – a bubble of invisible ripples in which we have to stand to be able to hear […]
on 20 March 2024