Schrijver Pieter Delfosse en componist Boris Bezemer startten een spel waarbij ze elkaar uitdaagden met zelfgemaakte partituren. Pieter schreef teksten op basis van Boris’ grafische partituren, Boris maakte muziek op Pieters partituren die vanuit tekst vertrokken. Ze gebruikten ongewone elementen zoals tijdschriftenknipsels, geometrische vormen en notaties die vanuit verschillende richtingen gelezen kunnen worden. Om een antwoord op deze partituren te formuleren, werden Boris en Pieter gedwongen om van hun gekende paden af te wijken. In deze ruimte waar een nieuwe verbeelding en waar nieuwe vormen ontstaan, zijn er geen regels om aan vast te klampen. Gek genoeg lijken ze in dit virtuoze spel dichter dan ooit bij zichzelf als verteller en maker te komen.

Meer partituren: https://www.borisbezemer.nl/pieter-delfosse/te-vertrekken/

Credits

Performance Pieter Delfosse & Boris Bezemer | Tekst Pieter Delfosse | Muziek Boris Bezemer | Met steun van De tekstsmederij, Asko|Schönberg & LOD Muziektheater

Boris and Pieter about the project (English)

“Scores are instructions for what to do. You are trying to achieve something, and the score tells you which path to follow. Sometimes you already know – more or less – what it is that you are trying to create by following these instructions, for example because you have already witnessed an interpretation of the score before. Sometimes you trustingly follow a score, not knowing where it might lead you. In any case the score is something that helps you go somewhere where you wouldn't have gone otherwise.

Scores can be found in many places, on your music stand, but also: on the manual of your new oven; in the safety instructions by an airplane steward; in lampposts shooting by as you drive along the highway; in the creases in a wrinkled piece of paper; and so on. In the most free sense of the word, a score is anything that you observe, interpret and then respond to.

Pieter Delfosse is a writer, and Boris Bezemer is a composer, so we thought it would be great to learn from each other's working processes. That's why we decided to drive each other to go to places where we haven't been before. So we made scores for each other. Boris mostly made very visual and graphic scores, which Pieter interpreted in text. Pieter on the other hand created scores from text which Boris transformed into sound and music. We used unusual elements, like colored shapes, cut-out words, and notations that could be read from all different directions. This resulted in atypical scores that are quite open to interpretation, but always with one very strict rule: you need to follow the score as meticulously as possible.

Composing, observing and responding to such atypical scores, forces our imagination to open new frames of thought. And in these unfamiliar new worlds you have less knowledge and experience to rely on, so they often bring us closer to our intuition and subconscious feelings, worries, doubts and passions. So, funnily enough, working with somebody else's score can bring you closer to yourself.”