The use of visual scores in live audiovisual performance

The text will focus on the connection between moving image and music to what concerns the possibilities of presenting composition scores as part of the creative process of live audiovisual performance in a way that emphasizes its improvisation and collaborative aspects. Scores are documents which preserve the ephemeral quality of the event and simultaneously makes possible its study and construction of its memory. How can score composition convey the improvisation and include the performer? Graphic scores in composition for music has been doing that since the 1950s through the work of several composers. We take as example the graphic score titled Treatise composed by Cornelius Cardew. As we understand today, scores are resultant from the interexchange between the arts. Scores, as representation of a composition to be performed, allow simultaneously organized improvisation and collaborative energies to come together in ways that reinforce the creative process.