Silver Press

Bodies of Sound / Cosmic Scores: Reading, writing, performing text scores

, Sunday 7 June

What is a text score? Performed in and through individual and collective bodies, what sort of subjectivities and relations can be produced within the space of the score? What kind of bodies – sonic, cosmic, human, social – can be read, written and performed? Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (Silver Press, 2024) editors and lead this afternoon workshop focusing on the text score as a speculative feminist medium.

In the first part of the afternoon we will collectively read text scores, including a selection from Bodies of Sound by Ximena Alarcón, Elena Biserna, Maria Chavez, Tomoko Hojo, Nat Lall and Anna Raimondo. Through the lens of feminist and allied politics, Irene Revell will lead the discussion drawing on her research into historical and contemporary text scores as structures that organise bodies and hold space for both singular authorship and collaboration, and distributed forms of labour.

In the second part of the afternoon we will collectively perform a selection from Sarah Shin’s Cosmic Scores, which bring together the cosmic and the embodied through the instructional as poetry, to feel and sound inner paths to outer space. This will be followed by writing and performing new scores in small groups. Please note no prior performance or writing experience or performance is necessary.

Organised by Sabrina Fuller.