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Research & Sound Craft

This section of the website gathers and documents a series of devices, instruments, and systems I’ve built or modified over time for musical performance. These projects were born not only from technical needs, but above all from a broader reflection on the role of technical objects in contemporary music, and on their capacity to create relationships and enhance processes of co-creation.

 

To build (design or re-design) an instrument or instrumental apparatus, for me, does not simply mean to invent something or solve a practical problem—it means to design relationships: between composers and performers, between performer and audience, between body, space, and sound. It means to question the agency of the tools and systems we put into play, their ability to shape gesture and redefine the sense of performance.

 

The goal of this area is to share processes, to make technical and artistic knowledge accessible, and to promote a culture of care—care for the instruments we use, for the works we interpret, and for the networks of people and objects that make every performative event possible.

DIY Motorised Instruments

Designing and building a new circuit to play Lisa Streich's Pietà

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Guide how to build the circuit; an article on the project & more

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DIY Sensor-equipped cello bow

Gyro/accel-based controller on a

cello bow

Investigating interactions between gesture and sound; guide how to build the instrument; future projects & more

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