One-Page Score Project – Lorelei Pepi (score), Graham Ord (music)

One-Page Score Project – Lorelei Pepi (score), Graham Ord (music)

Gradiance

Premiered 19 March 2021 as part of Painting Music – One-Page Score Project presented by Vancouver New Music and Laboratorio.

Notes from Lorelei Pepi:
Gradiance (2021), animation art by Lorelei Pepi

As an animation artist, I am used to considering the world through the lens of fractional time, and observing subtleties of performative gestures for expression of meaning. Gradiance involved something of a performance for me, which was the impulse to circumvent pre-meditated and over-analyzed planning and execution. Instead, I sought improvisation and play. I also bypassed my pandemic-driven impulse to be dark and moody, and instead discovered a digitally saturated chroma and fantasy landscape.

The spatial and gradient openness is punctuated with accents, with a stream of something (energy? data?) chattering and expulsing along a stream. The platform is a ceiling or a floor, and an echo of a quieter place to rest. The blue jumping surprise is like an overwhelming and repeated dance gesture providing a creative interruption across the path. Even with the improvisational approach, I was considering how structure and interruption could provide something interesting for Graham, the musician who will create the other side of the horizon.
– Lorelei Pepi

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