RESEARCH OUTPUTS

Borderscape Improvisations: From Analog Music to Live Coding

Coordinator: Ingrid Pustijanac

This section includes audiovisual documentation on the workshop held in Cremona from 26th to 29th March 2025. The aim of the workshop was to explore the many facets of improvisation in electroacoustic, electronic, and live coding contexts. Topics addressed included the boundaries and intersections between composition and improvisation, the role of the body and technological devices in shaping collective sonic events, and the ongoing challenges in connecting analog and digital bodies with concepts such as gesture, freedom, control, feedback, and latency. 

Theoretical contributions by Miriam Akkermann, Giacomo Albert, Pierre Couprie, Simone Faraci, Candida Felici, Francesco Giomi, Leo Izzo, Giovanni Mori, Ludovico Peroni, Sandro Pizzichelli, Ingrid Pustijanac, Luisa Santacesaria and Francesca Scigliuzzo helped to define a shared research framework around these themes. The practical sessions and open rehearsals – led by Alexandra Cárdenas (Berlin), Walter Prati (Milan) and Pierre-Alexandre Tremblay (Lugano) and involving a group of nine young musicians – were central to the exploration and testing of each research axis. 

The performers’ diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and practices sparked new questions regarding the use of specific analog-digital technologies and configurations. These issues were discussed collectively by scholars and performers throughout the workshop and during the final panel held after the closing concert. Excerpts and key points from the theoretical sessions, rehearsals, discussions and performances are available in the audiovisual materials provided below.