Interlude No. 23

Hand written music manuscripts from the nineteenth century, drawn with oak gall ink on handmade paper, are cut, woven, layered and sewn. Responding to the existing marks and their graphic patterns while intuitively recombining them allows for a new text to form. The deliberate hand drawn notations and staves are divorced from their intended musical equivalent and when re-assembled present a cacophony of lines, notes and marks. An improvisational remix. Sewn threads amplify the fragmented notations and lyrics.
Through the exploration and manipulation of the materials - resulting in alternative rhythmic patterning, the process reveals how musical notation can become visual through re-interpretation.