Score-Making
Creative Prompts for Mapping Personal Experience Through Sound
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Description
Score-Making is an invitation to develop meaningful links between sound practices and everyday experience.
There are prompts in several broad sections-maps, necessities, difficulties-that involve responding to questions and then drawing from those responses to create a set of instructions for sound-making (“scores”). Several example scores are included under each set of questions. Through performance of these scores, abstract ideas are brought into the realm of direct, immediate experience.
While this project is grounded in a text score tradition associated with experimental music, it is open to any number of approaches and can be bent to the creative will and technical resources of each individual reader. It mainly calls for honesty and a willingness to seek out alignment between personal and creative intentions.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Maps
2.1 Frameworks
2.2 Place
2.3 Practice
2.4 Bodies
2.5 Language
2.6 Access
2.7 Change
2.8 Futures
3. Necessities
3.1 Stability
3.2 Order
3.3 Time
3.4 Tasks
3.5 Home
3.6 Food
3.7 Rest
3.8 Happiness
3.9 Connection
3.10 Citizenship
4. Difficulties
4.1 Burden
4.2 Habit
4.3 Distraction
4.4 Confusion
4.5 Fear
4.6 Hurt
4.7 Regret
4.8 Grief
5. Context, Precedents, Parameters
5.1 Personal and Social Context
5.2 Precedents, Related Practices, and Further Reading
5.3 Parameters and Conditions
6. Appendix
6a Contributors
6b Score-Making Approaches
6c Online Repository
6d Score-Making Journal
Index
Product details
| Published | 10 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9798765139455 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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