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Wormwood (2022) - Score Video

Monash University
Helen Svoboda (Aggregated by)
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The score for Wormwood is inspired by worm tracings in the bark of a tree, photographed in Tasmania in September 2022. It features coloured shapes which represent different overtone pitch sets within an animated graphic score. These are generated in real-time to create a dynamic, interactive performance environment.

I worked with programmer Ciaran Frame to create a custom MAX patch that would animate the shapes across the screen at varying speeds and in shifting combinations, creating an action notation with a focus on the physicality and fluid, gestural quality of the bowed overtone techniques.

This file is a demo, captured on a screen recording in 2022. Each performance generates shapes in different orders, prompting improvisation.

Composition, Design: Helen Svoboda
Score Programming: Ciaran Frame


Issued: 2025-10-14

Created: 2025-10-14

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Animated notation | Digital and electronic media art | Double bass | Improvisation | Interactive media | MAX MSP | Music composition and improvisation | Music performance | Music technology and recording | Overtones | Screen media | aleatoric music |

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