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Landscape Video Score. Fjord
ID
Norway
Type
Video Scores
Date
2025
Landscape Video Score is an intermedia work exploring the points of contact between musical notation, performance and the specificity of place. Through choreographed actions filmed in the natural landscapes of Norway, Iceland and the Czech Republic, the project proposes a methodology in which topographical features function as compositional determinants, directly inscribing the terrain into the musical structure itself.
Video Score
The video documentation exists in dialogue with a multi-channel sound installation entitled Largo for Three Points, which spatially presents a largo extracted from one video score. Using solenoids to activate three separate points in the composition and exciters to transform field recordings using resonating steel plates, the installation materialises the hidden sonic potential contained in the filmed gestures. This configuration was produced and documented during an exhibition at the Potocki Palace in Krakow in 2025. The video works are produced in ultra-high 8K resolution to emphasise the relationship between landscape details and notation.
The video score was recorded in the village of Ålvik, Norway, at the point where land meets water, where sloping rock faces plunge directly into the fjord, making it quite challenging to maintain balance on their surface. The landscape features of the Hardangerfjord area allow markers to be placed by laying them out or sticking them onto the rock surfaces. This is simultaneously reflected in the graphic notation of the piece, whose notational elements are a transposition of the shapes of the props used in the video score. The video-score variant presented in this film consists of a greater number of points forming the basis of the harmony of a ten-voice cluster, performed by two digital synthesizers, whose timbres I selected according to the number of notes being played.
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