Time Coded Music: Four Bridges
The first worldwide simultaneous work for improvising performers was written for;
'Four Bridges' involved the orchestra playing from a time coded score, while others around the world played independently from the same score.
The music aspect of The Simultaneity Project uses "time coded scores" - conventional barlines are replaced with durations, each performer is given improvisational guidelines (such as dynamics and tonal centres) with entrances and exits at prescribed times. Performers do not hear each other when recording.
The results step away from the convention of 'pulse-driven' music' into something akin to the effect of birdsong at a dawn chorus. It is intended for playback on multiple speakers but can also be mixed in stereo.