scoring lands

ongoing graphic score project

scoring lands is an evolving project in which field recordings, material traces, and embodied mark-making converge to form graphic scores intended for improvising musicians. Each score begins outdoors, created in direct response to the soundscape of a specific place. Working with natural ink pigments foraged on-site — alongside found materials such as grasses, soils, feathers, or leaves — the marks become a tactile record of listening: a translation of birdsong, wind, water, and ambient textures into gesture, rhythm, and form.

These scores are conceived as portals for future interpretation — invitations for musicians to enter into collaboration with place, material, and process. Rather than acting as fixed maps, they operate as open fields of cues shaped by entanglement and situated listening. The project imagines a circular exchange in which sound becomes image, and image will eventually become sound again — re-voiced and re-imagined through the sensibilities of others.

At its core, scoring lands foregrounds ecological listening, material agency, and co-creation with place. The marks, pigments, fibres, and embedded materials are not representations of landscape; they retain the charge of the original encounter. When performers engage with these scores, they step into a distributed system of relations — a listening-with mediated through visual form.

mini sites - scores made using felted wool, natural dyes, wool roving, leaves and feathers