Volume can be suggested by a drawing. A little dot can be played loudly; a large shape can be played very quietly. The marks give the musician something to respond to, and the decision still has to be made in the room.

A line can curl, repeat, cross another line or occupy the whole page. We take those movements into the music. One player can stay with a shape while another moves elsewhere; the drawing gives them something to negotiate.

A route across the paper gives the players places to go. You can follow it, get lost in it, return. The map leaves the pace and the sound to the people playing.

These scores carry paper, reflective surfaces and winding strips as well as drawn lines. Weather and movement become material to interpret through sound. A piece of foil can ask as much of the player as a note on a stave.

Our summer 2025 residency made room for repeated encounters with the materials. These photographs keep the children’s works available as scores: they can be looked at, revisited and played again. The drawings remain the work of the people who made them.