The Open Score Workshop
A hands-on, collaborative research group that explores the use of “scores” across disciplines as experimental, descriptive, and performative devices. A “score” is a form of composition, and a way of communicating processes over time using language or symbols to define events. Scoring as a creative, generative process, is not limited to any one field, media, or genre. The workshop has two central components:
Part 1:
Performing and evaluating historical scores, in order to gain pragmatic insight into some of the fundamental strategies and effects of scoring. There are infinite new methods to be discovered among the wide variety of approaches to scoring.
Part 2:
Generating new scores. Each participant, instructors and students alike, practices regularly creating and revising original scores, generating a score every two days to form a collection of “48 Hour Scores” that accumulates over the course of the workshop. Each participant selects two of their scores to be performed and evaluated by the group.