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Reconstruction of Face Tunes are topographic reading points, which Forti noted when travelling through urban areas, inspired her to make Face Tunes. In this work, she transforms the silhouettes of human faces into formalized linear contours. These lines can be seen as scales and used as musical scores to embody movement. Forti wanders through these scales by following the traces with the movable part of a cheap toy flute while she is playing it.

Face Tunes stands for a phase in her work as a choreographer where she uses her minimalistic scoring method to analyse the interplay of movement, music and visuality.

“Though I’ve performed Face Tunes several times, I’ve never let the audience know they were listening to patterns derived from faces. I wanted people to listen to the music. I had faith that, since the awareness of variations among similar events is so basic a life process, when they heard Face Tunes they would unconsciously sense a familiar kind of order. As form seemed to be the storage place for presence, I hoped that the act of translating a coherent aspect of a set of faces to a corresponding form might awaken a more primitive level of pattern or ghost recognition.” (Simone Forti)