Creative residency at Bienvenue Là-Haut

Conducted as part of a residency with the Guillestrois Queyras School of Music and Art and the association Bienvenue Là-Haut in Aiguilles, this research explores the graphic representation of sound in an experimental form. Graphic scores question the link between graphic design and musical notation, developing a visual language that allows sound to be transcribed and interpreted in a different way.
Shapes, textures and colours translate free and intuitive sound experiences. Each score becomes an open graphic territory, where the subjectivity of the reader-player enriches the auditory and visual experience.

Through various collective creation protocols, several avenues were explored:
- Producing a sound with an instrument or the voice, then transcribing it graphically.
- Exploring unusual or accidental sounds from instruments and proposing a visual interpretation of them.
- Drawing a graphic form, then playing it as music.
- Composing a collective score, with or without a reading grid.
- Interpreting the score created by another participant.

This research questions the graphic dimension of sound and the musicality of images. How can a drawing induce listening? How can graphic design structure a sound interpretation while leaving room for imagination? Graphic Partitions offer a reflection on language, signs and perception, at the frontier between notation, abstraction and composition.