Matvey Shapiro - Riverscape 

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Graphic scores by Matvey Shapiro, July 2020

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"The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and the success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating. (Cornelius Cardew)

Series of paintings - riverscapes - sighted from above and abstracted to maps, graphically structured to serve as musical scores. The paintings-scores are accompanied by the recordings of the performances by several musicians.

The project investigates and questions the roles of composer and performer, the auditory nature of the medium of music, and the interdependency between the musical notation and the performance.

Participating musicians: Shira Legmann, Orr Sinay, Nitai Levi, Shaul Kohn, Tom Klein, Hovav Landoy."

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Main Site: https://matvey.com/riverscape/recordings.html