The Pianote
2024 Maajaam Artistic Residency, EE
Inspired by the spatio-temporalities found in the natural surroundings of the residency & the ways in which they present or ‘notate’ themselves into the visible, the ‘pianote’ aims to challenge the consecutivisation of space typical of many traditional score-reading practices by distributing the multiple temporalities represented by each notational marking within a unified space that cannot be ‘read’ or temporally organised from left to right. As such, this prototypical notating instrument invites ‘notationists’ to creatively engage with the arena of a score as a site of temporal activity & reactivity, while also bringing greater awareness to the inherent kineticism of the notating process, wherein each marking is the visual manifestation of a preceding gesture.
video demonstration