Tasty Score

TASTY SCORE is an alternative notation and composition system that drives a human-powered drum machine. Tasty Score: Saint Petersburg translates recipes from the Soviet Book for Tasty and Healthy Food into interactive percussion performances.

Each player becomes an ingredient and plays kitchen tools. Performance of the score involves 2-4 players who each walk in a track on a 5x5 meter course. The tracks are broken into measured steps. Each of these steps is then broken into 4 beats. The score is written on the course and players strike their instrument as marked beneath their feet. Through movement and active listening players find a shared rhythm.