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MOMENTA
This project explores the concept of "scores" as systems of encoding that translate one domain of information into another, with the translation being an aesthetic expression in its own right. In that approach, trans-lation rules are invoked in parallel with composition rules. In either case, the rules used are being invented or adopted.
The conventional notion of scoring is to mark a surface in a way that the marks indicate both the presence of the manipulator with the surface and within the surface. If the surface is time, the marking spotlights selected moments. In the selection of moments, the mark applies a sensory signal to the moment. The signals collectively materialize time. The material then becomes a way to form time, while simultaneously time becomes a way to seek and locate material. Form encodes time and reading decodes the form.
Momenta conceptually translates the passage of time and the sign system for that passage into audio and visual expressions formed by graphically converting those signs from random numeric signals into scores (evidentiary marks) that allow their reading to be performed in aural or visual expression. This exercise is a production methodology that can be extended indefinitely by including more kinds of encoding rules for translations and compositions.
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