scoring lands is an ongoing audio-visual project exploring alternate ways of engaging with natural landscapes through the creation of graphic scores. The work draws on cooperation with place, foregrounding the agency, vitality, and knowledge systems of non-human actors in the scoring process.

Each piece pairs a visual score with an accompanying field recording. Recordings are made on location in North Mayo, then brought back to the studio, where the artist undertakes a live painting session in response. Marks, colours, and gestures emerge through an intuitive, embodied process that resists fixed representation, translating the sonic qualities of place into visual form.

While attentive to the original soundscape, the approach embraces environmental contingency—weather, animal movement, insect activity, and seasonal changes all leave traces in the recorded audio, influencing the score as it unfolds in the studio. Pigments are foraged from the same sites where the recordings are made, embedding local materials, natural cycles, and cultural histories into the work.

The resulting graphic scores function both as standalone visual works and as potential structures for future sound performance. As the project develops, scoring lands seeks to expand the possibilities of how field recording and environmental listening can be transformed into performable, site-attuned notation.