PUSHING SCORES project

Pushing Scores is a two-year artistic research project, initiated by DE PLAYER and graphic designer Remco van Bladel. Throughout 2016 and 2018, this project researched the phenomenon of notation and the graphic representation of music. It unfolded through a nomadic program which included the creation of newly commissioned artworks and public events addressing contemporary questions and issues in this particular field. 

The incentive for this project is the belief that graphic notation in 20th Century avant-garde music and sound art constitutes an important, still radically innovative but wrongfully marginalised form, which can play a key role in the development of new audio-visual languages and media. DE PLAYER’s ambition, and that of their collaborating partners, was to emancipate graphic notation from the confines of the modernist tradition, in such a way that it may remain an innovative and provocative medium for decades to come. Earlier this year this resulted in an archival web publication that was generated out of this research.

DE PLAYER compiled a programme in which artists, musicians, theoreticians and practitioners were invited to participate. An overview of the collected research material has been integrated and reprogrammed on https://pushingscores.deplayer.nl

In addition, this online environment also functions as a tool from which new scores can be created, consciously or unconsciously.
CHECK OUT DE_LAYER #5
with works by Sven Ake Johansson, Karina Dukalska and Duncan Harrison
created using the pushingscores site as a composer tool.