Kolb and Richter’s score-based practice offers a concise model of continuity through iterability. A score can be enacted in different places, changed by different participants and returned to a common platform, allowing the work to accumulate variations without losing its identity. The key contribution lies in separating continuity from sameness: persistence occurs through structured variation rather than exact repetition. Methodologically, scores operate as compact protocols for shared action, documentation and re-circulation. Their wider bridge is to performance theory and open-source culture, where a work remains alive because it can be repeated, forked and recontextualised. This makes the score an especially useful model for long-duration research: it preserves enough structure to support comparison while allowing each iteration to register new conditions.
