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Musicking on Early Keyboards: An Embodied Approach
Coordinator: Massimiliano Guido
Carlos Bollo, Claudio Cardani, Sietze de Vries, Elia Pivetta, Simone Vebber, and Catalina Vicens — performers
Laura Bishop, Andrea Schiavio, and Eleanor Smith-Guido — researchers, Walter Chinaglia — instrument builder and researcher
The workshop explored the complex ecosystem formed by historical instruments, musicians, and space. We investigated how the specific affordances of historical keyboards shape the motor patterns used by each improviser and support greater control over musical structures.
This embodied perspective regards the sound qualities of historical instruments as an indispensable component of artistic creation and a powerful tool for internalizing a particular style and musical idiom.
Over three days, a group of leading musicians and researchers in historical improvisation engaged in continuous dialogue with scholars and musicologists through experimentation and musicking.