A Whirlpool of Imaginary Sounds

Despite recent cultural changes, the Early Music movement remains mostly a bastion of ”truth” and ”authenticity” in modern times’ turbulent sea of doubt. Conversely, the current project wishes to legitimise a place for falsification, fiction and imagination in the realm of historically informed practice. A forgery is typically associated with a work which is not genuine, intended to deceive and destabilize the foundations of value and meaning in the arts. Inspired by proto-scientific thought, poetry, devices of wonder and games from the 16th and early 17th centuries the Whirlpool of Imaginary Sounds aims to reconsider our past through polyphonic music that never was. In my work, I aspire to discover the liminal space between corpus-based musicking, forgery and period composition by reshaping the role of knowledge, either actual or imaginary, and its systematisation.