Making music with a black box: re-evaluating the composer-performer relationship through an expanded accordion.
Luca Piovesan’s dissertation addresses composition as a dialogical and iterative process of co-creation, aiming to expose a tension in the dominant composer/performer framework in Western tradition (in which composers are seen as sole authors), and to reshape creative dynamics.
To challenge this model, Piovesan developed the Poliarmonica, an expanded instrument combining accordion, pedalboards, and computer processing. Acting as a black box in collaborations, it became a tool to investigate performers’ agency and new forms of collective creation. His autoethnographic study position the instrument as a site of creative agency and a mediator of roles.
Academic supervisor Maarten Stragier, artistic supervisor Claudio Jacomucci
Please register before December 5ht in case you want to attend this public defense.
Public defense on Friday 12th December at 10 am. Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Petit Sablon 5, 1000 Brussels (small concert hall).