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Strategies/Tactics
is a series of graphic scores that explores varying levels of collaboration
between the score maker and ensemble. The project uses as its starting
point the writings of Michel de Certeau and
Fernand Deligny. These writers imagine ways of
moving through space and traversing everyday experiences as a creative and
often revolutionary process. Certeau imagines our
movements as political; our travels through the city are considered
subversions of the systems of order enacted by the state. Deligny sees our movements as creative and intuitive;
our wander lines illustrate something fundamental to the lived human
process. These contrasting concepts of creative, collective, and political
uses of space form the foundation for this project.
Each score in the series is a map of
overtone relations and dissonant connections, of assembled movements
through an imagined space. Players simply allow themselves a time and space
to explore their correspondences, movements, and relationships in an
interweaving meshwork of sympathetic and empathetic responses. From a
simple direction, ensembles develop cohesive tactics that will help them
move through each element of the score.
The Strategies/Tactics project imagines the relational
potentials of bodies (and their soundings) in space - using cartographic
concepts as the impetus, these scores offer material and spatial frameworks
for players to consider their sounds as movements. The scores are places
for players to travel collectivity - to create webs of arachnean
complexity through the experience of making sound together.
—Morgan Evans-Weiler
 
This
release comprises two CDs with six realizations of «Strategies/Tactics,»
including two performances by Skogen and one each
by Tse; Ordinary Affects; an ensemble consisting
of Quentin Conrate, Bruno Duplant,
Matthieu Lebrun, and Frédéric Tentelier; and the
duo of Sarah Hennies and Annie Lewandowski. The release also includes one
copy of each of the six scores by Morgan Evans-Weiler
and an additional informational sheet providing credits and track listing.
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CD I
1. Skogen: Erik Carlsson,
percussion; Anders Dahl, sine
waves; Magnus Granberg,
clarinet; Anna Lindal, violin; Eva Lindal, violin; Henrik Olsson, percussion, contact
microphones, mixing board
2.
Tse: Ryoko Akama, piano; Pierre-Yves Martell, treble
viol, pitch pipes, and miniature harmonicas; Cyril Bondi, shruti box, harmonica, and pitch pipes; Christoph Schiller, spinet
3. Quentin Conrate, percussion; Bruno Duplant, contrabass; Matthieu Lebrun, clarinet; Frédéric Tentelier,
Fender Rhodes
CD II
4. Skogen: Erik Carlsson,
percussion; Anders Dahl, sine
waves; Magnus Granberg,
clarinet; Anna Lindal, violin; Eva Lindal, violin; Henrik Olsson, percussion, contact
microphones, mixing board
5. Ordinary Affects: Laura Cetilia, cello; Jordan Dykstra, viola and objects; Morgan Evans-Weiler, violin; J.P.A. Falzone,
Fender Rhodes; Luke Martin,
guitar
6. Sarah Hennies, vibraphone;
Annie Lewandowski, prepared
piano
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