Scores Ready For You to Do

Scores For You to Do offers the score as a relational proposition: a momentary scaffold for collective attention. Drawing on lineages from Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening to feminist score cultures such as Women’s Work, Scores For You to Do holds manifold possible futures in its scores. Gathering fifteen newly commissioned text scores, the anthology brings together artists, writers and composers working across listening, improvisation and expanded forms of ‘score-thinking. Contributors, including Ximena Alarcón, Sarah Hennies, Tomoko Hojo, Kunci Study Forum & Collective, Cannach MacBride, Bint Mbareh, Elaine Mitchener, Matana Roberts, Romy Rüegger, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi, propose ways of gathering that are provisional, attentive, and diffractive. Rooted in queer-feminist, decolonial and disability justice approaches to practice, the scores invite reading, discussion, negotiation, and performance by anyone.