Joost Vanmaele

The personal confrontation with a partial deficit of the peripheral motor-apparatus in ´95 led to a special interest in various aspects of motor behavior in music performance. Being at the time a concert-pianist and also a piano-teacher, I noticed that a changed physical condition almost automatically induced a different kind of sound-production and interpretative strategy. This empirical data gave rise to a more general approach trying to elucidate the relationship between movement and musical expression.
Starting from three etymologically derived aspects of movere (lat.), ´Motivation´, ´motion´ and ´emotion´, I will try to construct an integrated framework for the performing musician, including insights into the ´why?´ , ´what?´ and ´how?´ of musical performance.