Who writes the score? – Sound and notation workshop with Shamica Ruddock

Wednesday 8 April, 6:00-7:30pm
Turner Contemporary

This workshop explores what a sonic score could be. Working in a small group alongside artist and composer Shamica Ruddock, participants will explore the process of sounding and note taking in a collectively held space where anything (and everything) can be a sound. Using a variety of notational and drawing techniques, we will map a journey together and reflect on our sonic curiosities; reflecting on how rhythms in sound and space, our memories and our bodies shift and envelope in communal spaces.

No previous technical or musical knowledge required.

Working across film, installation and live performance, Shamica Ruddock is an artist and a composer whose experiments in sound are informed by a core investment in sound as a site for knowledge production. Interested in dynamics of displacement, transferral, capture and legibility, through practice Shamica attempts to evaluate how these as processes contribute to the way we sense the everyday. Fiction, vernaculars, and (techno)creolisation are some further departure points.

Shamica has previously held residencies with Brussels experimental sound lab QO2, and Amant Foundation New York (2023). Solo shows include The River Between (Studio Voltaire, 2026), Palimpsests & Epithets (Skēnē Malmö, 2024) Deciphering a Broken Syntax (South London Gallery, 2022). Solo live performances include Cafe OTO (UK), Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus (SE), Somerset House Studios (UK) and ArtHouse Jersey (UK). In 2021, she was a British Library Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow researching Maroon sound cultures and in 2023 Ruddock was selected as an awardee of the second edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award. Shamica is currently a Sound and Music In Motion composer.

Previously an Open School East Associate Artist, Shamica Ruddock shares sound based research project ‘Re-Imagining In-Conversation’ with fellow Open School East alumni Hannan Jones. Presentations include Silent Green (DE), Savvy Contemporary (DE), Madeira Dig (PT), and Oscillation (BE). Together they are currently artists in residence with Wysing Arts Centre Cambridge, supported by Forma and Knotenpunkt.

This event is part of Towards the Edges, Open School East’s Public Programme 2026 – find more events: openschooleast.org/public-programme-2026