Perform It Yourself!
PIY Scores is an online series for pieces that anyone can perform in the comfort of their home. PIY Scores lets performances become a medium for communication, blurring the boundaries between composer, performer and audience.
Composers sometimes create music to be performed from the comfort of a home rather than a conventional public concert hall. Such pieces are often composed in a different way to ordinary concert music due to the different characteristics of the space and the presence of things like pets, house plants and permanent residents. Traditional concert etiquette is unlikely to be followed in a home, and the setting establishes different relationships between audience, performer and composer. The close proximity and convivial atmosphere can allow more insight into the compositional structures, the audience’s experience and the performer’s interpretation. This raises the following questions: Can the experience of interpreting these scores create new ways of artistic communication? Can the composer, performer and audience all become site-specific “interpreters”?
We invite you to document your interpretation of the pieces and send it to us. It doesn’t have to be fancy, phone camera footage will do! In case it is a video or an audio file, upload it to YouTube, Vimeo or Soundcloud and send us the link. By sending us your documentation, the composers can see (and hear) how you have used their work to create new performances. In turn you can all inspire each other and make your performances a shared experience.
This project is curated by Lars Kynde and Maya Verlaak.
Send all documentation to maya.verlaak@gmail.com
Maya Verlaak’s interpretation of Stephen Chase – ‘A Journey around my room’
Watch this space!
Remember to check in on this page, perform the score and send us your documentation!
24 May 2020 – Work by Teodora Stepančić
Commissioned by iii
Website Teodora Stepančić: teodora.stepancic.com
Documentation
Performing Robert Blatt’s ‘gnomons’
18 May 2020, by Teodora Stepančić & Assaf Gidron
10 May 2020 – Call out by Eleanor Cully
Commissioned by iii
Website Eleanor Cully: https://eleanorcully.co.uk/
Documentation
Performing ‘Honorary doctorate from the University of Andy Ingamells’
18 May 2020, by Teodora Stepančić
29 April 2020 – Work by Maya Felixbrodt
Commissioned by iii
Website Maya Felixbrodt: https://www.pninax.com/
Documentation
Performing Claudia Molitor’s facetime duo:sonic portrait.
19 May 2020, by Daniel Kéry & Yun-Chih
Documentation
Performing (parts of) ‘Telemann for everyone’
1. Find a picture of the Marlboro Man smiling.
2. Lift your spirit as high as you can.
3. Find the oldest email you ever received and send a reply.
4. Find Wally.
28 April 2020, by Matteo Marangoni
Documentation
“My performance of ‘A Journey around my room’: I was looking around from the middle of my bed, asking myself: which traces did my physical body leave behind and in a way capture the history of movements and presence of my body in this space?”
23 April 2020, by Winke Wiegersma
