Game Mechanics for Voices: The Place of Landscape
2025
2025
With ‘Game Mechanics for Voices: The Place of Landscape,’ Aske Zidore explores composing for four voices (SSAA) by introducing game mechanics and turn-based strategies. The recordings consist of three movements, performed live by vocalists from Norwegian ensemble Trondheim Voices at the Øra Studio in Trondheim, March 2023.
The piece uses game mechanics as notation systems; wooden games, including card, board, and tile structures, serve as the foundation for transforming rules into musical instructions. The four vocalists perform the music by playing together, and through gameplay orchestrate the progression of the composition.
The libretto revolves around creation, endowing the voices with a narrative quality that evokes new linguistic and auditory landscapes - an exploration of the human voice as an instrument for expression and storytelling!
Vocalists:
Torunn Sævik
Heidi Skjerve
Sissel Vera Pettersen
Ingrid Lode
Composition and game design by Aske Zidore
Recorded on March 31, 2023 at Øra Studio, Trondheim
Engineered by Jo Ranheim and Kyrre Laastad
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk, Berlin
Photos by Storm Ravn
Out on 12” vinyl via Anyines
︎ More info
The piece uses game mechanics as notation systems; wooden games, including card, board, and tile structures, serve as the foundation for transforming rules into musical instructions. The four vocalists perform the music by playing together, and through gameplay orchestrate the progression of the composition.
The libretto revolves around creation, endowing the voices with a narrative quality that evokes new linguistic and auditory landscapes - an exploration of the human voice as an instrument for expression and storytelling!
Vocalists:
Torunn Sævik
Heidi Skjerve
Sissel Vera Pettersen
Ingrid Lode
Composition and game design by Aske Zidore
Recorded on March 31, 2023 at Øra Studio, Trondheim
Engineered by Jo Ranheim and Kyrre Laastad
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk, Berlin
Photos by Storm Ravn
Out on 12” vinyl via Anyines
︎ More info
