T*ActiLE Project

Technology and Action-led Experience in contemporary music performance

To what extend does cutting-edge technology contribute nowadays to boosting and expanding musical creativity and expression?

The project T*ActiLE: Technology and Action-led Experience in contemporary music performance explores ways to apply state-of-the-art technology as a performative-based tool  to develop composition techniques in playing an acoustic instrument, like the piano, and as a biofeedback-based tool to enhance methods for the gestural self-evaluation in piano performance practice.  

This technological and embodied musical experience will achieve pioneering performative paradigms, interdisciplinary artistic formats and monitoring methods that will open new horizons in the contemporary music performance research.

Demos and Pilot experiments

#My Avatar and me – ‘Piano Phase’ by Steve Reich for two pianos in virtual reality (VR)

November 2019 – Pilot performative experiment. Giusy Caruso piano, Bavo Van Kerrebroeck sound-video artist and researcher, Dr. Bart Moens, technical assistance. Poject conceived under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Pieter Jan Maes @ ASIL LAB – De Krook – Ghent

#Improvising with the sonification of my brain’s vibration executed by an a EEG mapping

November 2019 – Pilot performative experiment conducted in collaboration with the sound-artist Petermfriess @ YIAP – Brussels
Special thanks for this short video to Flavia Silvestroni

#Sonification of gestures and spatialisation of sound in piano performance

September 2019 – Pilot performative experiment Giusy Caruso piano, Bavo Van Kerrebroeck sound-video artist and researcher, Dr. Bart Moens, technical assistance  @ ASIL LAB – De Krook
Special thanks for this short video to Dr. Federica Bressan

#Avatar Piano Project

September 2019 – An Augmented-Piano Performance Giusy Caruso, piano, technical assistance LWT3 Society Milano. Project conceived in collaboration with the IPEM group @Politecnico Di Milano Dipartimento Ing. Meccanica, Pianocity Milano

#Practicing with EEG mapping and MoCap monitoring

May 2019 – Pilot experiment. conducted in collaboration with the PhD researcher Mattia Rosso @ ASIL LAB De Krook  – Ghent 

#Motion capture of a Piano Performance: technology-enhanced mirror

October 2015. Performative experiment conducted under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marc Leman and Dr. Luc Nijs in collaboration with Esther Coerevits

Partners

IPEM – INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOACOUSTIC AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC

 

LWT3 SOCIETY