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A portrait of Alexander Calder’s work Chef d’orchestra (1966), which was made in collaboration with New York composer Earle Brown. When it was made in 1964, the work was intended to be both an instrument (“played” at intervals in an open score by four percussionists) and a conductor (after it was hit and spun in motion, the musicians returned to their percussion stands and imagined the petals of the mobile superimposed over their written score, playing only those notes.) For Shape Notes, two performances of Chef d'orchestre were staged and recorded. The audio recordings of those performances were then edited and used as a new score from which the visual rhythm of this work was composed. Read More

Watch Shape Notes online. Featuring , Shape Notes is classified as genre movie with an average rating across the web of 10. It is available for streaming online in the USA The movie was filmed in United States of America and was released on 2016. Shape Notes was directed by Lucy Raven. Read Less