Envelope

2024, graphic/instructional score 

To be published in:Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors in Music. Co-edited by Nina Eidsheim, Dylan Robinson, Daniel Walden, and J. Martin Daughtry

Envelope is a text score for creating a score. Envelope operates between the ethos of “ready-mades,” instructional scores, and mail-art to comment on the technical terminology of the “envelope” in sound. Using a found envelope, the score instructs the performer to create a score for deciding on fluctuations of frequency and volume, using the physical envelope as a guide for how to contain sound. The score is iterative, instructing performer/composer to mail their score to someone who will continue repeating the process with their own envelope.