Looking for ways to decode my process of working with image as performance score, leading to video as conductor, I began to look for ways of charting these sonic movements and translations onto paper. This lead me to begin drawing, after a two-decade pause.
While on residency in the town of Richmond, set in the expansive Karoo region of South Africa, I experimented with the deconstruction of a static image – an abstract landscape drawing by visual artist Liza Grobler – into individual parts and sections with the aim of producing and performing a score based on the original image. I wanted perform the score intuitively, then retrospectively decode the process in order to reconstruct a new image representing that process. The resulting image (pictured below) became a new score, shown at Circa Cape Town and has been performed several times by different ensembles.
