Location: VierVaart, Groede, Netherlands





The improvisational Dutch band Lärmschutz collaborated with me previously in the project “Nonsense Notes”.  This time, we worked together again to explore the notion of graphic scores. I pondered on the question: Can real objects or living beings be seen as preexisting musical scores?

Instead of composing graphic score by myself, I invited the audience to vote for the objects they wanted the musicians to interpret and play. In this event, we witnessed how the objects in Viervaart transformed into music.

Those objects were: sheep, the swamp in the sheep field, an apple tree, the chicken’s house, the cat’s stairs and a land work made by Iris in VierVaart.

Lärmschutz is a free-improvised brass and string noise-punk from Utrecht, the Netherlands. Lärmschutz has been around since 2013. Since then, the band, of which bassist/trombonist Rutger van Driel and guitarist Stef Brans form the core, has released a flood of albums, largely on cassette. The music of these two Utrechters is always improvised and generated from original ideas, as they say about their work: “Concepts, ideas and freedom, that's what it's all about”.

larmschutz.bandcamp.com