The Round Sound Project (2013-2018)
The Round Sound Project is a sound visualisation system that uses repetitive pattern within pre-composed music to generate new score. Within this imagery musical score is deconstructed and re-invented to visualise the complexity of sound layering, texture, tone, repetition and rhythm. This graphic score is circular rather than linear, with pitch as radius and time as circumference.
These visual graphic notations are read and interpreted by musicians with performances ranging from visual art contexts such as the London Design Festival (2017) to music events such as the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2018) and hybrid events such as the Seeing Sound Symposium at Bath Spa University (2018). Artworks from this series were exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2014, 2017 and 2019), the International Print Biennale (2016), the National Original Print Exhibition (2014, 2015 and 2017), and won the 2017 Flourish Award resulting in a solo exhibition at the Huddersfield Art Gallery in 2018.
'Circular Score'
A set of scores visualising Fratres by Arvo Pärt – a piece exploring the musical convention of variations on a theme.
Within this set of works repeated motifs generate new diagrams, each image echoing the previous one.
The disks both within and outside the etched score depict volume dynamics.
'A Classic on Vinyl' & 'A Farewell on Vinyl'
'A Classic on Vinyl' is a series of etchings drawn from Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy.
'A Farewell on Vinyl' is developed from Farewell to Stromness by Peter Maxwell Davies.
The Vinyl series' are sister companions, both following the same rule structure: whenever a motif within the music repeats, the score must form a new concentric circle.
For both sets of prints the etched score is layered on top of a print taken from the original vinyl of the music, thereby feeding back into the cycle of listening, visualising, and re-creating.
'Score for the Prayer'
A score drawing inspiration from the repetitive actions of the berimbau– a percussion instrument used within the composition Oração by Mestre Toni Vargas. It is a Ladahina (or Prayer) to begin the Brazilian game of capoeira.
The score splinters into constellation-like patterns determined by the angle at which the each musical motif finishes.
'Score for the Prayer' Etching 25 x 25 cm (2013)
Synaesthetic Score (2015)
A score notating Madrigal by Gabriel Fauré.
Commissioned by the John Colet Singers.
Made in collaboration with Choir Master Peter Bullett - a synesthete who sees key signatures in colour.
'Synaesthetic Score' Screen Print 70 x 70 cm (2015)
'Score for la Fille'
A score notating Claude Debussy's La Fille aux Chevaux de Lin.
'Score for La Fille' Screen Print 50 x 50 cm (2015)