The Scores Project: Essays on Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975
Edited by Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks
"a digital and print publication focusing on textual and visual scripts for time-based compositions by artists practicing across dance, avant-garde music, Fluxus, mail art, concrete poetry, and happenings from the 1950s to the 1970s."
"On every refresh, the project’s landing page reveals a different score, each with its own hermetic inscriptions [...] From this amorphous origin, a click carries us to the table of contents, where we may navigate the editors’ introduction; eleven essays, each dedicated to a discrete work; and a hefty object index of over two thousand digitized scores, books, letters, press clippings, videos, and audio recordings drawn from the Getty Research Institute."
"The book’s physical incarnation openly accedes its essential linkage to the website. Select images intersperse and illustrate paper pages of text—in all, eighty-four scans, photos, and archival documents, a far cry short of the couple thousand multimedia assets available online. Indeed, the opening page of each chapter and the caption for every image bear URLs to the associated webpages. Conceived foremost as a born-digital, web-based book, The Scores Project proposes a methodology for presenting writing on time-based media that toggles as nimbly between physical and digital formats as its subjects do between drawing and dance, text and performance, geometry and music."