Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity by Danica Maier

A collaboration between visual artist, Danica Maier and composer, Martin Scheuregger - Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity takes a single historical lace draft from the Nottingham Lace Archive as the starting point for new live and installation-based visual-musical works. The working process and presentation of Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity sees the fine artist become ‘composer’ and composer become ‘artist’. Their roles move from user – of each other’s discipline knowledge, aesthetic understanding and technique – to author of works that are contingent on their collaboration but can still be identified as belonging to their individual practices. You can navigate this exposition through a series of prompts each focusing on a different aspect or way to engage with the work: Look, Listen, Read, Play, and Watch. Read: offers an opportunity to understand further details about the project including pilot works, experimental development, key events and practical details. Look: will share images of the scores created by Maier and Scheuregger, and the original historical lace draft. Listen: gives you a chance to hear original music box sound pieces as well as Side A and B of the recorded pieces. Play: allows you to ‘play with' the individual tracks allowing you to create a combined piece in various iterations including 1-4 musicians. Watch: includes film documentation from four different concert versions to view.

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Side A & B, four vinyl records

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Side A & B, Four vinyl records

Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity (2018), 2 sides of 4 vinyl recorded tracks

Four single instruments (Clarinet, Cello, Flute, Violin) played on four record players form a central part of the piece Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity accompanied by up to four musicians. The recorded pieces can be played with 1, 2, 3, or all 4 of the vinyl records while a similar mixed configuration of live musicians.

Here you can listen to either Side A or Side B to the full range of all four records playing together.

Music Box, Score, (2018)

Two hand-cranked music boxes (20-note and 30-note) and one 20-meter punch card tape.

This piece was initially part of the exhibition Bummock: The Lace Archive. Score was played daily at 3 pm alternating each day between the 30-note and the 20-note music box. When not being performed the work stood as a sculptural installation with the punch card tape in the music box ready to begin.

Danica Maier playing the initial music box piece Score at Backlit Gallery, Nottingham in the exhibition Bummock: The Lace Archive, 2018.

Fragment of Score being played during a live event.

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Side A

Side B

20-Note music box

30-Note music box

Full recorded versions of the punch card tape being played through the 20-note and the 30-note music boxes. Each piece is just less than 20 mins in length.

Click on the arrow to play. It is intended to listen to each piece independently.

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