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Landscape Video Scores – graphic notation version
ID
Artist’s
Type
Graphic notations
Date
2025
The Landscape video-score is an original artistic and intermedia category that Jacek Doroszenko introduces into contemporary art discourse as the result of many years of exploration at the intersection of image, sound and space. The artist defines it as a hybrid work in which the medium of video functions as a visual notation of sound – not an illustration of music, but its notation, determined by the topography and acoustic properties of a specific place. Here, the landscape ceases to be a motif or decoration; it becomes an active participant in the composition.
Landscape Video Scores – graphic notation version
Structurally, this score operates on an aleatoric principle: the performer reads the visual ‘notes’ according to their own interpretation, making each performance unique and unrepeatable. Doroszenko consciously draws on the tradition of open form here, from Brown’s December 1952 to the graphic rhythms of MIDI notation seen in the artist’s Metascore of new gestures – but goes further, linking performative indeterminacy to a specific geography. The sound module is not an abstract proposition; it is embedded in the physical properties of the terrain: the texture of the rock, the density of the vegetation, the vastness of the horizon.
Three video-scores – Garden, Fjord, Island – form a composite notational structure analogous to the parts in an orchestral score. Their simultaneous presentation generates a polyphonic arrangement in which the duration, dynamics and timbre of each part are determined by a distinct topography.
Silence here is not a break in the notation, it is an element of the soundscape, notated in the same way as any other sound. However, there is no silence in this composition, as it plays against the backdrop of a continuous field recording of the location to which it refers.
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