Blade pitch scores 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
(2024)
Scores sourced from the jumps at women’s free programmes of top 10, during Beijing 2022 Olympics.
The music score consists of the tiny second moment when the competitioner’s jump lands and the blade cuts through the ice - that is where the pitch is recorded. Each jump they performed during the performance is recorded from the archive of the Olympics. By watching closely these footages of such a highly competitive sport, and interpreting it into strict notation, it questions how such as beauty, competition, calculativeness, motion manipulation and restrictions are seen in our society through sports and movement.
Accordingly, the music notation interprets the duration and precision of the programme, by making scores out of the jumps and rests from the in-betweeen time of the jumps.
The temporality of the present is translated into musical score using musical notation as a way of writing data.
‘Triple axel is difficult. You try it anyway - it brings a better score. ‘
part of. ‘meander’ @Billytown
Laser print on paper, Korg notation stand.
1,0m x 40cm.
pictures 1,3,4,5 by Hannah Schleifer