Score Scroller (2006)
This is a kind of simple machine which suggests new ways to indicate music
for musicians. The music score is written on seven rolls of paper mounted
in the box. The box has 42 windows from which player are able to see only
fragments of the overall score through the windows. When the handle is
turned by hand, the paper moves, so the visible fragments always change.
Details:
1. There are two windows on both sides. Composers can set their own rules
regarding how the paper can or should be read by the performers.
2. seven rolls of paper move at different speeds.
3. The person who turns the handle can control the speed i.e. the tempo
of the performance.
4. Figures that the player can see from both sides are "retrograde
inversions" of each other.
Possible usages:
1. Composing special pieces for this box.
2. Composing special pieces using graphic notation.
3. Pasting fragments of existing pieces on to these paper rolls.
Windows
Mechanics
First piece which was composed for the Score scroller is "one day closer to paradise" for 6 musicians. It was performed on 30th Nov. 2006 at Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands.
Musicians:
Trumpet：Brad Henkel
Vibraphone：Sam Sowyrda
Guitar：Keane Bhatt
Violoncello：Harald Austbo
Recorder：Miako Klein
Voice：Marjon Ittner
Conductor：Daisuke Terauchi
World premiere at Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam
You can see the movie here.