During the residency presentation, Lawrence McGuire, Andrejs Poikāns, and Cis De Gendt will perform and talk about their collaborative research in verbal notation.
At Q-O2, they have been researching the potential of text scores as a methodology for creating a collaborative performance practice as a trio, that combines actions, voice, electro-acoustic set-ups (including various speakers, playback devices, microphones) and computers. Together they have been examining existing verbal scores within their contexts and through linguistically informed analysis, as well as working with their interpretability. By playing with ‘found text’ as text scores, and experimenting with task-based processes and aleatoric possibilities of algorithmic music, they intend to expand the research by creatively intertwining seemingly distinct practices.
Throughout their time in Q-O2 they have been engaged with compiling some of this research as scores written for the trio, which they will perform during the post-residency presentation. Scores as proposals, with a specific interest in temporal flexibility and the incorporation of both planned and unplanned elements.
Cis De Gendt (b. 1999, Belgium) makes music, performs ,and organizes. His interest lies in creating situations that foreground the participatory aspect of listening, often by working with the perceptual potentials and codifications of the recording and performance format.
Lawrence McGuire (b. 1997) is an artist active in sound and text arts, specifically on bridging elements found in sound poetry and computer music where voice is seen as a starting point for experimentation.
Andrejs Poikāns (b. 1999) is an artist and researcher from Riga, Latvia. He is fascinated by the ‘inner’ and the ‘outer’, computer music (in its historic and contemporary practices), as well as texts, calendars and universal clocks as compositional tools.
Free - 18h - @Q-O2
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