Luciano Azzigotti · Artistic research · Oslo
Speculative
Organology
Composing instruments, objects and environments.
What happens when the design of the instrument becomes an act of composition?
Organology describes the instruments that exist. This research asks what instruments could exist, and what their invention reveals about musical systems, technical objects and their interactions.
A model for invention
SOM connects acoustic, ontological and fictional approaches to the musical instrument.
Writing the relations
SOOG brings materials, objects, agents, interactions and environments into a diagrammatic and computational space.
Making and performing
Prototypes, rehearsals and compositions test what these relations can do in practice.
From speculation to practice
Instruments are imagined, designed, simulated, built, measured, played and revised in rehearsal. Materials, acoustic principles, interfaces and behaviours become compositional material. Physical, digital and fictional instruments can be investigated within the same research process.
The work moves between experimental instruments, compositions, performances, installations and software. This site presents the evolving research, its methods and selected artistic projects.
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Artistic research at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo.
In the context of MishMash — creative artificial intelligence.
