Scores are notations that guide actions. A music score is a set of guidelines to direct the movement of interpreters and the way in which their bodies interact with their instruments to produce a certain sequence of sounds. The connection between a score and the music it can produce is similar to that between a recipe and the food that will result from it. They relate to past and future, being at the same time the documentation of the steps followed and the ingredients combined for the preparation of a successful dish, and the steps to be followed, by others, to reach a comparable result. Every score, as every recipe, establishes the core of the actions they intend to guide, leaving space for the agency of different interpreters.
To write these scores is to define a protocol, a series of conditions that we decide to share, from which we can relate to the different cities we inhabit from our own individual vantagepoints, informed by our backgrounds and forms of working. Gathered here, the idea is that these scores can be performed by other and larger groups of people. We can imagine people walking and reading at the same time on the sidewalks of different cities. We can imagine a thread connecting fragments of conversations captured in various languages. We can imagine the instable balance created by the encounter of objects found across borders. Potentially, this could create a collective mapping of the world through our choices of surfaces to reproduce through frottages or abandoned objects to collect, through the voices we can hear and document or the foreign gestures we can remember.
