Stationery Orchestra
Stationery Orchestra is an inter/cross-generational project that enables people to have an opportunity to tune into cranked up stationery sounds and use stationery items as sonic/ musical tools: jazz pencils, hole punching dub step, free jazz writing and doo wop doodles. It also draws upon Cornelius Cardew’s ‘Scratch Orchestra’; an experimental music ensemble that was open to anyone (mainly artists who were interested in music), used graphic scores, rather than conventional music notation and was improvisational.
Drawing/scribbling/writing using stationery implements are all everyday functional actions, The sounds they functionally produce are evident and simultaneous, but are disregarded by-products that have inherent poetic qualities and musical resonances. The sounds of drawings/marks/patterns/scribbles are amplified. This project embodies the curiosities and enchantments of the everyday to reveal and ritualise habitualised practices from everyday life.
The Stationery Orchestra embodies the idea that everyday found sounds can be re-orchestrated and amplified to reveal the everyday as being inherently extraordinary, if you tune in and crank it up.
Drawing/scribbling/writing using stationery implements are all everyday functional actions, The sounds they functionally produce are evident and simultaneous, but are disregarded by-products that have inherent poetic qualities and musical resonances. The sounds of drawings/marks/patterns/scribbles are amplified. This project embodies the curiosities and enchantments of the everyday to reveal and ritualise habitualised practices from everyday life.
The Stationery Orchestra embodies the idea that everyday found sounds can be re-orchestrated and amplified to reveal the everyday as being inherently extraordinary, if you tune in and crank it up.
