DEBORAH CARRUTHERS
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  • Exhibitions / Residencies/Performances
    • Exhibitions ... Now You See Me... >
      • FLOW— Deborah Carruthers and Sydney Lancaster Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - 2024
      • What Remains Unexplained 2.0: The Endpoint Collective, Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2022
      • Beyond the Stone Angel: artists reflect on the death of their parents, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, October 2021- February 2022 >
        • More About ​Safe Passage
        • More About the Paintings ...
      • Announcing the Coming of the Sun, Adjacent to Life Gallery, New York, New York, USA , 2021
      • The Aura of the Already Said - Zygote Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio - 2019
      • Souvenir / Souvenir - Montréal, Québec 2017 >
        • Souvenir / Souvenir - Press
        • Souvenir / Souvenir - Essay ​Culte du Souvenir
        • Souvenir / Souvenir: About the Exhibition ...
        • Souvenir / Souvenir : Invitation card
    • Performances ... Once Upon a Time ... >
      • reiterator – Endpoint Collective* workbyseoul.05 Gallery, Seoul, North Korea, March, 2025
      • creek* - Nu Ears Ensemble - Open Ears Festival, Kitchener, Ontario, June 2024
      • slippages - the Alkali Collective, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2023
      • reading between the lines & Emerald Ash: Deborah Carruthers and Terri Hron- Black Box, matralab, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec - April 2022
      • Ecstacies of Influence - Le Gesù, Amphithéâtre -Montréal - December 2018
      • slippages - The UBC Symphony Orchestra - Chan Centre - Vancouver - October 2018
    • Residencies ... Home Away From Home ... >
      • Ecstasies of Influence : matralab, Concordia University - Montréal 2018 >
        • Ecstacies of Influence - December 16, 2018 - Le Gesù, Amphithéâtre - Montréal
      • The Past Sealed Away - Peter Wall Institute Artist in Residence - Vancouver, BC 2017 - 2018
      • What's in a Song ? Between the Song and the Silence: Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta 2017
      • In The Hole - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 2017
      • A Ubiquity of Sparrows : Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta 2016 >
        • A Ubiquity of Sparrows : Banff Installation
  • Graphic Scores
    • creek* - 2024 >
      • creek* -Instructions for Play and Score
    • reading between the lines - 2022
    • safe passage - 2021 >
      • safe passage: Video Score with Audio
      • About Mortsaf for My Father: ​Safe Passage Installation
    • slippages - 2018 >
      • slippages - Instructions for play and score
      • slippages in the Studio: About my process >
        • slippages Athabasca -Photographs
        • slippages Immense Immensities
        • slippages Notebook
        • slippages Athabasca Painting
      • slippages - Performance Videos
    • Between the Song and the Silence: Berlin 2017 - 2021 >
      • Between the Song and the Silence: Graphic Score- Studies for Hobrechtsfelde Iteration 2020
      • Between the Song and the Silence: Graphic Score- Banff Iteration 2017
      • My Muses
      • What's in a Name?
      • Taking Flight ... The Process
      • Swan Song... A summary of my process for my MFA research
  • Portfolio
    • Mortsaf for My Father : the Series ... >
      • Mortsaf for My Father : the Paintings ...
      • Mortsaf for My Father: ​Safe Passage
    • Allegory for a New Ice Age ... Photographs
    • The Past Sealed Away : the Series >
      • The Past Sealed Away ... Painting
      • The Past Sealed Away... Prints
      • The Past sealed Away: Athabasca - Photographs
      • Immense Immensities Miniature Watercolours
    • In The Hole
    • Souvenir sacré - Photographs
    • Souvenir sacré - Opasatika
    • Fleurs sacrées - Photographs
    • Mortsaf - Paintings
    • Genetics for Cowboys
    • Beautiful Ghosts - Installation
    • Niagara Tondos
    • Twinned
  • C V
  • Contact

Between the Song and the Silence:  Annotated Bibliography
Graphic Scores

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Graphic Scores
 
Burchfield Penney Art Center (2015) Emil Schult: Portrait Of A Media Artist Pioneer > Exhibitions > Burchfield Penney Art Center. https://www.burchfieldpenney.org/exhibitions/exhibition:04-10-2015-08-16-2015-emil-schult-portrait-of-a-media-artist-pioneer/.
 
Edgerton, M. E. (2004) The 21st Century Voice. The New Instrumentation Series (Book 9). Scarecrow Press.

A workbook with vocal exercises for non-traditional voice work. As I am not a musician, I have engaged a vocal coach to demonstrate and work through some these exercises with me. I have found the explanations of the biomechanics of the voice-work helpful, and the excerpts from the cd that I have listened to serve to illustrate examples well, even for a neophyte. Currently, I have begun to work on my breathing techniques using Qigong, and have found that those breathing exercises seem to dovetail well with Edgerton’s.
 
Gould, E. (2011) Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation. England: Faber Music Ltd.

It is as described: a definitive guide. For a non-musician, a little difficult to go through, but I have found it helpful in terms of knowing what the conventions are. This will prove helpful at this point as I begin to construct a means of communicating to my performers.
 
A Macro to Micro View of Graphic Scores:
 
Tom Phillips, himself an artist and composer, wrote a couple of articles for the Guardian in which he first gives an overview, with an accompanying article providing specific examples of the work of different
artists. Finally, a look at the very different types of compositions and artworks he has created by looking at Phillips’ own website.
 
Phillips, T. (2013a) Playing pictures: the wonder of graphic scores. @guardian. 2013-10-07. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/07/graphic-music-scores-playing-pictures-tom-phillips

Tom Phillips, himself an artist and composer, wrote this overview of musical scores as relates to what a graphic score is. This article helped to clarify for me the what kind of performers I would want to work with. Phillips writes: “what would seem to be a fanciful improvisation is qualified and conditioned by the known sonic preferences of the composer”.
It was this, in part, that reinforced my decision to use birdwatchers as the performers in the “Twitchers” and “The Confusion of Birders” parts of the performance. They would be well-acquainted with “sonic preferences” of birdsong mnemonics, as well as the sonic idiom. 
 
Phillips, T. (2013b) Graphic music scores - in pictures. @guardian. 2013-10-04. http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2013/oct/04/graphic-music-scores-in-pictures
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Phillips provides many different examples of graphic scores, most of which have links to the original materials and/or sites of such artists as Cathy Berberian: her performance of Stripsody is frankly brilliant; Gyorgy Ligeti, Cornelius Cardew, Wadada Leo Smith, and Tom Phillips himself.
 
Phillips, T. (2016) Tom Phillips - Music scores. http://www.tomphillips.co.uk/works/music-scores
 
 Charles Burchfield’s Sonic Depictions:
 
I have had a long-time fascination with Charles Burchfield’s work and have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to spend a good amount of time at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY. What has always struck me with his work was his depiction of sound in his paintings: you can literally see his birds and insects sing. There has been much discussion because of the way in which he obviously displayed sound in his paintings of whether or not he had synaesthesia and could “see” sound. The way in which he incorporates sound into the visual lexicon of his paintings is satisfying, a demonstration of his own rich sonic idiom. I find myself looking to his work more and more as I explore how to describe sound and movement.
 
Burlingham, C. e., Gober, R. c., Hickey, D. c., Johnson, T. c. & Weekly, N. c. (2009) Heat Waves in a Swamp : the Paintings of Charles Burchfield. Los Angeles
Munich ; New York: Hammer Museum ;
DelMonico Books/Prestel.
 
Maciejunes, N. V. & Hendricks, N. S. (1997a) 'Charles Burchfield's painted memories'. The Magazine Antiques, 151 (3). pp 458.
 
Maciejunes, N. V. & Hendricks, N. S. (1997b) 'Nurturing His Muse: The Archives of Charles Burchfield's Creative Life'. American Art Journal, 28 (1/2). pp 7-81.
 
McCoy, G., Morse, J. D. & Burchfield, C. (1967) 'Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper: Some Documentary Notes'. Archives of American Art Journal, 7 (3/4). pp 1-15.
 
Vermette, S. & Johnson, T. (2014) 'Wind, Sunshine, and Sky: A Meteorologist's Interpretation of Charles E. Burchfield's Watercolors'. Weatherwise, 67 (2). pp 27-33.

​ We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Nous remercions le Conseil des Arts du Canada de son soutien.
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  • Home
    • Artist Statement
    • Bio
  • Exhibitions / Residencies/Performances
    • Exhibitions ... Now You See Me... >
      • FLOW— Deborah Carruthers and Sydney Lancaster Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - 2024
      • What Remains Unexplained 2.0: The Endpoint Collective, Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2022
      • Beyond the Stone Angel: artists reflect on the death of their parents, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, October 2021- February 2022 >
        • More About ​Safe Passage
        • More About the Paintings ...
      • Announcing the Coming of the Sun, Adjacent to Life Gallery, New York, New York, USA , 2021
      • The Aura of the Already Said - Zygote Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio - 2019
      • Souvenir / Souvenir - Montréal, Québec 2017 >
        • Souvenir / Souvenir - Press
        • Souvenir / Souvenir - Essay ​Culte du Souvenir
        • Souvenir / Souvenir: About the Exhibition ...
        • Souvenir / Souvenir : Invitation card
    • Performances ... Once Upon a Time ... >
      • reiterator – Endpoint Collective* workbyseoul.05 Gallery, Seoul, North Korea, March, 2025
      • creek* - Nu Ears Ensemble - Open Ears Festival, Kitchener, Ontario, June 2024
      • slippages - the Alkali Collective, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2023
      • reading between the lines & Emerald Ash: Deborah Carruthers and Terri Hron- Black Box, matralab, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec - April 2022
      • Ecstacies of Influence - Le Gesù, Amphithéâtre -Montréal - December 2018
      • slippages - The UBC Symphony Orchestra - Chan Centre - Vancouver - October 2018
    • Residencies ... Home Away From Home ... >
      • Ecstasies of Influence : matralab, Concordia University - Montréal 2018 >
        • Ecstacies of Influence - December 16, 2018 - Le Gesù, Amphithéâtre - Montréal
      • The Past Sealed Away - Peter Wall Institute Artist in Residence - Vancouver, BC 2017 - 2018
      • What's in a Song ? Between the Song and the Silence: Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta 2017
      • In The Hole - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 2017
      • A Ubiquity of Sparrows : Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta 2016 >
        • A Ubiquity of Sparrows : Banff Installation
  • Graphic Scores
    • creek* - 2024 >
      • creek* -Instructions for Play and Score
    • reading between the lines - 2022
    • safe passage - 2021 >
      • safe passage: Video Score with Audio
      • About Mortsaf for My Father: ​Safe Passage Installation
    • slippages - 2018 >
      • slippages - Instructions for play and score
      • slippages in the Studio: About my process >
        • slippages Athabasca -Photographs
        • slippages Immense Immensities
        • slippages Notebook
        • slippages Athabasca Painting
      • slippages - Performance Videos
    • Between the Song and the Silence: Berlin 2017 - 2021 >
      • Between the Song and the Silence: Graphic Score- Studies for Hobrechtsfelde Iteration 2020
      • Between the Song and the Silence: Graphic Score- Banff Iteration 2017
      • My Muses
      • What's in a Name?
      • Taking Flight ... The Process
      • Swan Song... A summary of my process for my MFA research
  • Portfolio
    • Mortsaf for My Father : the Series ... >
      • Mortsaf for My Father : the Paintings ...
      • Mortsaf for My Father: ​Safe Passage
    • Allegory for a New Ice Age ... Photographs
    • The Past Sealed Away : the Series >
      • The Past Sealed Away ... Painting
      • The Past Sealed Away... Prints
      • The Past sealed Away: Athabasca - Photographs
      • Immense Immensities Miniature Watercolours
    • In The Hole
    • Souvenir sacré - Photographs
    • Souvenir sacré - Opasatika
    • Fleurs sacrées - Photographs
    • Mortsaf - Paintings
    • Genetics for Cowboys
    • Beautiful Ghosts - Installation
    • Niagara Tondos
    • Twinned
  • C V
  • Contact