During our first session of creative sound projects we were tasked with creating a graphic score, I made a rough sketch of what I wanted to create for my graphic score and wrote related chunks of text next to it. I later decided to paint my graphic score on a canvas. I made this decision because I had not painted before and part of our manifesto was to step out of our comfort zones. My graphic score features a hard red background, with two blank stripes near the top of the painting. I used a paint pen to draw two sets of black lines in the white stripes and the outline of a stomach near the bottom of the painting.
I chose to include a stomach in my graphic score because when used as a verb it can mean to “endure or accept”. I find when stepping out of my comfort zone, I usually find it hard to be resolute consistently whilst working and will lose faith in ideas that I’m not sure are working, rather than continuing to experiment with these ideas I will usually start on something new. I think enduring the times when I am fearful of something not working and continuing to experiment would improve my practice. The thick black lines I drew signify to me the sound of a stomach rumbling, this ties in with the part of the manifesto focusing on turning the inside outside as it is a sound that leaves the inside of somebody’s body and escaping into the world.
