For Beverley Bennett's series of visual scores, Cacophony.
Insert a musical phrase, use each cell in the image to contort it.
I had height inform tempo, scratches inform glitches. Simples.

Contort To Inform

For Beverley Bennett's visual score series, Cacophony. 
I applied a different methodology for each one.
These works open up music making and performing to all musicians; regardless of training, ability to read music or skill-level (as i clearly demonstrate).

This is JUST FIGURATIVE. The simplest and arguably easiest to engage with. Basically, looking at the image I saw a picture of a mountain, and improvised a piece of music about a mountain.

Figurative

Artist Beverley Bennett made musical/dance visual score series, Cacophony. 
I applied a different methodology for each one. 
These works open up music making and performing to all musicians; regardless of training, ability to read music or skill-level (as i clearly demonstrate).

This one is MAINTAIN MOOD. To me, the most interesting method and the hardest to execute. I sat in front of the image, looking into it rather than at it. Trying to open myself up to tease out a deep internal response. As I started playing my eyes scanned slowly over the image like it was a suffolk landscape, and I was a child again imagining adventures for animals and myself amongst the rolling woods and fields where I'd explore over summer holidays. And I felt this sea of sadness rise up in me. And that is exactly what you are hearing, until towards the end as I found it a difficult status to maintain.

After that initial play, I found it very hard to engage openly with the score. Always wanting to reproduce what had happened that first time, which then of course felt forced.

Jonathan Holland