Final presentation of project 1
Sound score:
This object is meant to be picked up to be able to understand it. The viewer has to be able to understand how the sound interacts within the space. The different colors and textures represent noises.
To make this sound score, we went on a dérive in class to Le Jardin de Tuileries. We sat next to a squared playground filled with kids and we were blindfolded. We had to draw what we heard, this was perfect to try and figure out the shapes and colors each sound represented.
I worked a lot with synesthesia for my sounds score. I took a look at artists like Melissa McCracken since she works with colors, shapes and getting her ideas across through these. Also, Kandinsky. He works a lot with these elements too having to do with synesthesia, but he also focuses a lot on composition which was key to me in the process of my sound score.
I want the people who see this score to understand and experience what I experienced while in the park. I want the audience to understand and try to imagine what the different textures, shapes and colors mean. What do they identify it with?
This is all the process that I used to make the sound score. We can see the drawings made blindfolded in the park as well as my first attempt to represent the work.
Event Score:
This event score is based on instructions. Each audience member is able to look at it and interpret the score any way they want. They can use the ball of yarn and walk however they please.
This event score is based on my experience so far in Paris. I feel like I have not stopped walking since I got here, not only walking to places but also getting lost experiencing the city. I wanted to show this because I believe it is also a derive in a way, just like the one in Le Jardin des Tuileries. As well, I want people to not pay attention while this performance is being done because Parisian people don’t pay attention to me when I walk around Paris and I want it to be as similar as possible to my experience.
I was very much inspired by the event scores we looked at in class as well as the performances we did. It really made me think of how we can represent an action or event in a way that is unconventional and free for interpretation.
Habit Score:
This habit score is only made to look at. To every person it can mean something different: the value of 8 minutes. For me, it is the 8 minutes I take brushing my teeth every night, but for someone else, those 8 minutes can mean something different.
This habit score is also a derive in itself. Not because of the action but because every time I do the action of brushing my teeth, the 8 minutes are different. I think of different things, I reflect on different moments of my day…
For this habit score I was inspired by the personal experience of brushing my teeth. I thought of 5 different ways every day of how I could represent it, making it also a process.
I want to show that a simple habit, something I do not pay attention to every day, can be turned into something more complex, a whole experience. Also, I wanted the audience to experience the value of time. Time is precious. I spend 8 minutes brushing my teeth every night, and I am never going to get those 8 minutes back. How do you spend your time? Is it worth it?
This is the process of my Habit Score. I wrote all the times I brushed my teeth at night for eight days with the color I felt my mood was.
Dance Score:
My dance score is meant for representation. It is meant to show how the steps of the choreography that have to be taken. Come are horizontal lines, some are vertical and some diagonal. Also, every stitch is meant to represent one step. Since it is meant to be used, the viewer can pick it up and try to represent it.
For this project we went to Le Cent Quatre. Here, we experienced how people danced and did different routines. I only focused on a couple out of the many dancers. I chose these two dancers because it reminded me of my mother. She used to dance like this and she used to embroider a lot. So, it is a very personal piece to me. It brings me very close to her. While at Le Cent Quatre, I felt like I was also in a derive. I got lost in the movements of these dancers and forgot we were in class, getting caught up in my idea.
I have used the specific technique of embroidering. I have embroidered the different steps and each person is a different color.
This is the process that lead to my idea for the Dance Score. It is a drawing of the dance I saw in Le Cent Quatre.
SKETCH BOOK:
These are the pages I dedicated to George Brecht on my Sketch Book in the making of Project 1. It helped a lot to be able to understand what an event score was.
These are the pages I dedicated on my Sketch Book for Steve Paxton in the making of Project 1. It helped a lot with my music score.
