Inventing malleable scores: From paper to screen based scores

Abstract

This paper examines the idea of artistic license of the interpreter as a positive aspect of composition. The possibilities of participating in the creative act beyond the role of the traditional interpreter are illustrated by tracing the development of malleability in score writing in selected works of the author. Starting with the standard score, examples are given for the various forms of malleable scores that lead up to the application of real-time electronic scores in which a concept of self-conduction is feasibly implemented for use in distributed ensembles.