The Score

By bridging the dimensions of word, image, and sound, and making a wide variety of archival materials accessible in a unique digital interface, The Score enables immersive, multimedia engagement with artworks that are typically approached via specific art forms, artists, or movements in disciplinary isolation from one another. 

The Score is a comprehensive account of experimental scores as developed by avant-garde composers, visual artists, dancers, and poets from the 1950s to the 1970s. A collaboration between digital publishing technologists, curators, art historians, musicologists, and literary scholars, this project arose from a sense that researchers are limited in their firsthand exploration of these materials due to the typically segregated formats of their presentation: printed books, physical exhibitions, recordings, or live performances. The project integrates these formats into a unified digital interface framed with context provided by an interdisciplinary group of scholars.

This project supports the development of a digital publication integrating text, images, audio, and video drawn from the Getty Research Institute's holdings in performance scores and score-related documentation.