Making it up, this moment of June

Instructional score, performance and publication, 2019

Commission for Radar, Loughborough University
Suported by Arts Council, Hinrichsen Foundation

A new performance score developed as part of (re)composition, a set of commissions drawing on research by Dr Allan Watson in Loughborough University’s Department of Geography. Alan’s work explores the connections between the social and economic relations fostered by music; musical infrastructures; and working conditions in the music industry.

The project investigated forms and relations of listening that (re)produce and are (re)produced by personal and public places, thinking through non-musical, musical and technological listening. I brought together an ensemble of Loughborough musicians to explore ways to trace boundaries of music, place and registers of listening in a rehearsal and recording process. The public were invited to a recording session of the first performance of the score.

With funding from the Hinrichsen Foundation, the score for Making it up, this Moment of June was published in hard copy. It was designed in collaboration designer Blue Firth, and features an experimental essay on the politics of listening by David M. Bell, which can be read here.