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The research project ‘Practice and Aesthetics of the improvising accordionist in jazz music: An endeavor to the implementation of Free-bass’ aims to rethink the harmonic…
improvisation, performance practice, jazz, accordion, free-bass
This research focusses on site-specific compositional and performance practices of music for organ and electronics and their musical-spatial values.
composition, performance practice, organ, electronics, space(s)
This research will be done from the performers’ perspective, but in collaboration with different composers for experimenting new amplified piano / pianist music.
extended techniques, piano, microphones, experimentation, collaboration between composers and performers
The limitations of the electric guitar are also the limitations for the composer. Registers, spectrum, resonance, decay: all musical parameters are questioned in the search for a new and unheard…
electric guitar, limitations, amorphous 6-string, register, spectrum, resonance, decay
This project investigates what the philosophical en practical consequences are of a reappraisal of the 17th-and 18th-century concept of taste when it comes to general and historical performance…
taste, musical performance, theater, philosophy
'Fare Musica Antica (Ebraica) reinventing a usable past' is a research project centered on Jewish poems from Italian sources, and their relation to extant repertoire: both notated music from Early…
authenticity, jewish, early, transmission, reception
piano, transcription, arrangement, salon musical, performing practices
contemporary music, live electronics, cello performance, audio-visual, spatialisation
Informed Phrasing

Started in 2018 by Nadav Katan

Informed Phrasing will suggest a new way to incorporate analytical findings into musical performance.
analytically informed performance practice, phrasing, schenker analysis, temporal gestalt theory
The principal aim of this research is to explore the confrontation between voice and electronics.
voice, identity, electronics, confrontation, disembodiment
This study aims to explore problems, which may be summarized under historicity and idiosyncrasy, whereby Prach draws on his double experience as a fortepianist and a composer.
idiosyncrasy, fortepiano, composition, composer and performer
A comprehensive guide on how to achieve convincing and credible transcriptions and informed interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach's music on guitar.
Bach, Classical guitar