Video from premiere by Forest Collective in Skin Deep at Abbotsford Convent
Video from performance by Dirt and Copper at Space 124, Project Artaud, San Francisco
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a graphic score for 5+ players
commissioned by Forest Collective
premiered at Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, Australia
2018
Players navigate between stations, improvising with the graphics they encounter along the way. A meditation on intentional and subliminal communication, the scores are created in an improvised fashion similar to the practice of automatic writing, combining visual and textual information.
“But symbols, I must point out, do not occur solely in dreams. They appear in all kinds of psychic manifestations. There are symbolic thoughts and feelings, symbolic acts and situations.”
–Jung, Carl G., Man and his Symbols (Aldus Books: London,1964), 41.
“In 2012, the average amount of time for a local wireless call was 1.80 minutes”
–Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), “Average local mobile wireless call length in the United States from 1987 to 2012 (in minutes),” https://www.statista.com/statistics/185828/average-local-mobile-wireless-call-length-in- the-united-states-since-1987/ (accessed 7/4/18)
“The average text message length is around 7 words”
–Crushh, “The Average Text Message Length Is Around 7 Words,” https://crushhapp.com/texting- tidbits/the-average-text-message-length-is-around-7-words/ (accessed 7/4/18)
Video from premiere by Forest Collective in Skin Deep at Abbotsford Convent
Video from performance by Dirt and Copper at Space 124, Project Artaud, San Francisco
CLICK FOR SCORE