TY - GEN
T1 - The Magnetic Score: Somatosensory Inscriptions and Relational Design in The Instrument-Score
AU - Privato, Nicola
AU - Magnusson, Thor
AU - Einarsson, Einar Torfi
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - With the changes occurring in the dialectics between the composer and the interpreter during the second half of the twentieth century, the traditional concept of the musical score has undergone an ontological change. As composers began exploring unconventional notational practices and offering to the interpreter a higher autonomy in relating with the musical material, the locus of the musical information has become less defined, at times merging with that of the instrument. In this paper we explore the dual nature of notation both as score and as instrument from the point of view of non-visual methods of representation. We do this by presenting the Magnetic Score, a system for the inscription and generation of sound that relies on permanent magnetic fields. In magnetic scores, the relational design of the inscriptions and the interdependence of the symbolic and somatosensory layers offer original insights on the role and situatedness of the musical score in contemporary practices, as the performative gestures emerge out of the interpreter's embodied interaction with the magnetic fields.
AB - With the changes occurring in the dialectics between the composer and the interpreter during the second half of the twentieth century, the traditional concept of the musical score has undergone an ontological change. As composers began exploring unconventional notational practices and offering to the interpreter a higher autonomy in relating with the musical material, the locus of the musical information has become less defined, at times merging with that of the instrument. In this paper we explore the dual nature of notation both as score and as instrument from the point of view of non-visual methods of representation. We do this by presenting the Magnetic Score, a system for the inscription and generation of sound that relies on permanent magnetic fields. In magnetic scores, the relational design of the inscriptions and the interdependence of the symbolic and somatosensory layers offer original insights on the role and situatedness of the musical score in contemporary practices, as the performative gestures emerge out of the interpreter's embodied interaction with the magnetic fields.
KW - magnetic score
KW - embodiment
KW - instrument-score
KW - somatosensory
UR - https://zenodo.org/record/8079334
UR - https://www.tenor-conference.org/proceedings/2023/6-TENOR_BOSTON_2023_paper_4288Privato.pdf
U2 - 10.5281/zenodo.8079334
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.8079334
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - TENOR'23 PROCEEDINGS
ER -