Projects
TransVariations – Music beyond the limits of time and technology
Coordenation
Participating institutions
Funding
Reference
FBR_OC2_20
Period
01.01.2023-31.12.2024
Team
Alfonso Benetti, Francisco Monteiro, Trond Engum, Øyvind Brandtsegg
Abastract
This project will address the use of innovative technological approaches to problematize the relationship between artistic creation and interpretation in the context of Western music. The initiative will explore the possibilities of modern timbral shaping in the context of Western-Art piano repertoire using feedback and adaptive processing methods as modes of experimentation. Techniques to be used include the analysis of sound features departing from real-time playing and the use of extracted expressive control signals to adjust electronic processing.
Expressive features to be extracted include amplitude, rhythmic patterns, timbral sharpness, and spectral density. Additionally, processing includes reverberation, convolution techniques, granular processing, spectral shaping, freezing and time modification. This way, new artistic products will be created advocating a rupture with the contemporary paradigm of representation in European Western-Art Music. Thus, a new idea of authenticity emerges based on a perception of the past through innovative contemporary means: a new reality is reconstructed according to current mechanisms of understanding where, in practice, the original exists within a specific context and temporal space as part of the present.
Keywords
Artistic Creation; Technological Interfaces; Piano; Experimentation; Music Performance
