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Track 3

Score

Make a Score

What is a Score?
To me, it's a way to make physical something that is intangible and ephemeral. To inscribe one's action(s) or movement(s) onto something (or someone?).

Did you walk with us? Or did you not? Did you find it easy, informative, slow, fast, boring, unenjoyable, unrhythmic?
Our score informed yours

Would you want to create your own?
Someone asked us to give instructions on how to create a score. But there isn't any one method or science to it. So instead, here are some ideas and possibilities:

Draw a Map. Mark your movements- steps, stops, sit, stand, run, lay down, touch, stare.
Write a poem, passage or text. Describe where you moved, and how. Did you look straight ahead? Did you look up at the sky? Did you taste or smell something?
Draw anything- what you felt, where, when? Could be just abstract shapes on paper, lines and shapes on your body, or even on the earth you stand on with your foot, finger, palm, or stick.
Make a video.

The options are endless

Here's a quote, maybe this explains it better:

The Indo-European root of the word score is "sker", which means “to cut.” The term is thus linked to the notions of creating a notch and keeping a tally, which is exactly what the Old Norse root of the word means. There is, from the beginning, a double purpose inscribed in making a “score,” that of performing a certain action and that of producing a physical record of an abstract quality or quantity. The cut of the score, while splitting open the surface on which it is inscribed, fuses action with abstraction, making them indistinguishable. It inscribes a temporal dimension on that surface; the very act of inscription alchemically turns space into the physical expression of a certain duration.
(Carlos Basualdo — Score, in terms of performance)

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