Speculative Organology
Summary
Organology traditionally describes existing instruments. This project asks what instruments could exist, and what their invention reveals about musical systems, technical objects and their interaction.
Composing music can also mean composing instruments. Their materials, acoustic principles, interfaces, behaviours and relations with performers and environments become compositional material. An instrument is thus an evolving process through which musical possibilities are constructed and transformed.
This PhD project develops Speculative Organology as a framework for this expanded field of composition. Five interconnected dimensions, material, object, agent, interaction and environment, allow physical, digital and fictional instruments to be investigated within a shared model. The research proceeds through artistic practice, treating instrument invention as a mode of inquiry.
People
- PhD fellow: Luciano Azzigotti
- Supervisor: Henrik Frisk
Institutions
Work Package
- WP1: AI for artistic performances
- WP2: AI in artistic processes
- WP7: Human-centric AI for Creative Problem-Solving
Duration
2026–ongoing