M A R I E

L A S T A R Z A

The River Trent has a huge amount of personal interest to me as I have lived, played, worked, and produced work around it for most of my life. I therefore chose to join a long-standing interest with a new one, the river and sound.

A project that I had been working on as part of my MA was that of walking the course of the River Trent from its source on the southern edge of Biddulph Moor to where it joins the River Ouse at Trent Falls, forming the Humber Estuary. As part of Photo~Canopy 2014 I documented an artist walking the boundary of the National Forest and my interest in recording sound also began around this time.

My initial research for this project mainly focused on graphic notations, as there has been extensive research and development in this area over the past 50 years. In 2008, Theresa Sauer edited the compendium 'Notations 21' featuring graphic scores by composers from over 50 countries, which evidences how prevalent the practice has become. When first studying the book I went from page to page, wanting to catch sight of some form of photographic content within the scores and immediately began thinking about the photographic possibilities.

Exploring the the link between image and sound, traditional notation, mapping a space through sound, graphic scores and acoustics.