post scores: workbook + play archive with Thea Martin

Join Thea Martin for a Post Scores workshop on Sunday 29th November from 2 - 3.30pm @ Goodwood Books. Places limited to 15, with prices as pay what you can $5 - $15. Create intuitive, experimental sound 'scores' with text, drawing, lines and invented notations. All participants will be provided with a Post Scores workbook, postcard and writing tools. No music or sound experience is required! Using the medium of a postcard, Post-Scores Project invites participants to 'score' sounds of potential and present utopias, using intuitive processes of drawing, writing and mark-making, with the intention to 'send a sound' to another. Post-Scores Project has been facilitated by Thea Martin since 2021 as workshops, installations and exhibitions in schools, festivals and art spaces. Inspired by and in dialogue with American composer James Tenney's 'Postal Pieces', a set of postcard scores comprised of various notations dedicated to his friends and colleagues (1965-1971), a central text score written by Thea Martin entitled 'Post Scores for Doing Utopia' serves as an invitation into participatory scoring and sound-making. Drawing on feminist and queer theory (Ursula K Le Guin, Donna Harraway, Sara Ahmed) and the text scores for collective/communal listen ing of queer composer Pauline Oliveros, the concept of utopia is positioned not as a fixed future entity but as a fluid method for other ways of desiring. In each interation of this project, audience/participants are invited to score alternative systems, structures and conditions through the lens of the sounds that define and describe them. Thea Martin is a musician, teaching artist and writer practicing on Kaurna Land / Adelaide. Their artistic practice is rooted in the activation of individual and community agency, through invitational artistic encounters. Their workshops work to uncover and construct sonic meaning through the processes of multiple creativities. Their workshops in creative music making have been programmed by Carnegie Hall (NYC), Art Gallery of South Australia, Tiny Fest (Otautahi/Christchurch), International Teaching Artist Collaborative (Antwerp & Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Audio Foundation (Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland), and Living Maps Network (London).

Please email us with your access requirements hello@goodwoodbooks.com.au Tea provided.

Goodwood Books is a feminist bookshop and meeting place located on Kaurna Yerta, the stolen lands of the Kaurna people. We support truth, treaty and reparations. Our mission is to support reading as a community building and liberatory practice. We are committed to feminist and radical principles. We are actively anti-racist and anti-ableist. Trans rights are human rights. We support community building through providing an accessible and inclusive third space where people come together to read, listen, make, and share. Goodwood Books is a for-purpose business staffed by volunteers. All proceeds go to supporting local readers and writers, and to causes that fit our mission of supporting reading as a liberatory practice. Our business model is based on sustainable practices and we are deeply immersed in the circular economy. Our collection is mostly secondhand, with a small but excellent selection of new books, by women, trans* and queer writers.