Scoring the City
This experiment at the intersection of urbanism and experimental music takes inspiration from graphic scores in music as dynamic forms that could offer new ways of notating the relationship between design ideas, built form, and social life: in other words, between scoring and performing urban space.
Throughout 2019 we hosted four workshops in very different cities with common challenges: London and Paris, two global cities needing to create flexible space to accommodate rapid economic and socio-cultural change; and Belfast and Beirut, cities marked by conflict needing to find common spaces across sectarian divides. The workshops invited architects and composers to explore a site, share their observations, and create scores that challenge the static nature of the architectural blueprint.
Events
Scoring: London
11 April 2019, London College of Communication
Scoring: Beirut
24 April 2019, Fabrika
Scoring: Belfast
25 October 2019, Harbour Commissioner’s Office
Scoring: Paris
12 December 2019, IGOR, Plateau Urbain
Critical Notations
4 June 2022, Theatrum Mundi, London
Performances by Georgia Laptop Orchestra
Lines of Enclosure, by Sharon Phelan
Sense of Place, by Jake Johnson
Flax Flower, by Richard Dougherty
Follows from
- Date April 2019
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Role
Research
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Project website
scoring.city
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Co-curators
Gascia Ouzounian
Fani Kostourou
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Funders
TORCH, Oxford University
Theatrum Mundi
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