Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity

Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity is a collaborative project between visual artist Danica Maier and composer Martin Scheuregger. The project takes a single historical lace draft from the Nottingham Lace Archive as the starting point for new live and installation-based visual-musical works. This lace draft would have originally been used to programme a mechanical lace machine – it is, in essence, a set of graphical instructions. For this project it has been repurposed to create instructions – in graphic and traditional notation – for a group of musicians. Overall, the work explores an iterative re-encoding process, embracing imperfection and glitch as an intrinsic part of its aesthetic. Key ideas of transcribing, encoding and re-encoding are explored through compositional and graphical interventions, and through the musical interpretation of the results.

This publication forms a part of this project, as it offers short insights into the work from a variety of perspectives. It also contains images of the scores; photographs of performances, workshops, rehearsals and exhibitions; a timeline of key project events; and a link to the online audio album of the project.

• Contents [1]
• Introduction – Danica Maier & Martin Scheuregger [2–3]
• 'One Vinyl, Two Sides: Repeating Variations and Difference' – Danica Maier [4–6]
• 'Sound Making' – Martin Scheuregger [7–9]
• 'Thm, A Transcelation' – Daniela Cascella [10–12]
• 'Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity: notation, materiality, temporality' – Lauren Redhead [13–15]
• Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity (Side A), Danica Maier – images [16–27]
• Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity (Side B), Martin Scheuregger – images [28–30]
• Score, research and performance images [31–34]
• Rehearsal & performance images [35–37]
• Historical lace draft [38–39]
• Link to audio album [40]