Collaboration with scenographer Sarah Nixon

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I used to make scrolling scores out of long paper strips (see examples below), but my ambition with these was ultimately to outsource the composition of graphic notation to other people. During 2012 I experimented with different ways of achieving this. One method was for a performance by an ensemble of musicians from the Ligeti Academy in the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. I was assigned to work alongside a sceneographer to produce the piece and decided to have graphic notation composed during the performance. A hand-operated conveyor belt was produced, with a camera and projector set up halfway along it. Patterns could be arranged at one end of the conveyor and would be projected onto a screen as they passed the camera. The composition would then be destroyed once it had been played as the objects fell to the floor on the other end of the conveyor. The principals of reading the different colours in the graphic notation were determined by the ensemble during rehearsal.

Text taken from an interview with Ryan Ross Smith for animatednotation.com

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Performances
14 April 2012, Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague
23 April 2012, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam