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Just as Mieke Bal in her installation Don Quichotte. Sad Countenances deviates from the standard linear narrative in video art, our guest Solomiya Moroz explores the new possibilities for musical narrative offered by unconventional score notations.

Drawing on the last three years’ of research Solomiya Moroz will present a comprehensive framework for understanding the impact of digital scores during the meeting at WRO. She will delve into the interplay between affect, embodiment, and digital technology, offering critical reflections on a field still defining its boundaries.

This is what the artist writes about her project:

Digital technology is revolutionizing the musical score, offering a diverse range of innovative systems for musicians. These systems range from mimicking traditional print scores to incorporating animated, graphical, and AI-based elements. This transformation allows for dynamic interaction between performer and music, blurring the lines between composition, score, improvisation, and performance. The Digital Score project explores this evolving landscape, providing both theoretical and practical insights.

Solomiya Moroz is a Canadian-Ukrainian musician, composer and researcher, based in the UK. She has a PhD in music composition from the University of Huddersfield and a Master’s in Live Electronics from the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Her work tends to progress towards the expansion of music-specific media and the role of the musicians within them. Currently, she is working as a research fellow in embodied music cognition on the Digital Score project at the University of Nottingham. Recent premiers of her compositions have been performed by Ensemble Apparat, accordionist Teodoro Anzellotti, Quasar saxophone quartet, Bozzini string quartet and accordion duo XAMP. She has also performed as a flautist with various ensembles and presented her music in Canada, the UK, the US, and Europe. Her projects and research have been supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et Culture.