Powers of Divergence : An Experimental Approach to Music Performance

Abstract

The three-and-a-half-year experience with MusicExperiment21 and with my trajectory in artistic research, leading to the writing of this book, allowed me to interweave an array of expertise and interests (ranging from performance to composition, improvisation, visual arts, and post-structural philosophy) that in my previous activity as a freelance guitarist were left unrelated. This experience gave me the opportunity to understand their common potentialities and their capacity to mutually enhance one another, and to foster possibilities that were latent in me, both as an artist and as a researcher. The change brought forth by this project concerns not only my everyday work but also a complete transformation of my way of thinking about my own profession and creativity.