Plastic Extension of Music – Workshop 23-24

In November 2023, an open workshop for musicians conceived by Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete started with the aim of creating a Plastic Extension of Music. The workshop included two conferences about Plastic Extension of Music and Sound Art, an Object-Based-Learning visit at Skissernas Museum in Lund and several meetings and reunions to discuss the projects and methodologies of the participants.

On 2 May, the exhibition at Inter Arts Center (IAC) will open with the Plastic Extensions created by musicians from Skåne during the workshop, including a live performance on 4 May with the pieces that are the source of the Plastic Extensions.

You are welcome to see and hear the works of:

Agata Tuchołka – performing and extending Gunnar Berg’s Pastourelle 
Hanna Komorowska – performing and extending George Crumb’s Tora! Tora! Tora!
Rebell Gitarrkvartett + Lisa Holström & Petra Nilsson – performing and extending Alice Kint’s Havet
Sofia Vecchiato – performing and extending Eugène Bozza’s Caprice nº3

Download the artists' biographies here (PDF, 2,24 MB, new tab)

Opening public exhibition:
2 May, at 19:00 - Black Room, Red Room and VR/Sound Lab

Public performance:
4 May, at 17:00 - Black Room, Red Room and VR/Sound Lab

Opening hours / exhibition:

2 May: 19:00–21:00 (opening exhibition)
3 May: 12:00–16:00
4 May: 12:00–17:00 + Public Performance at 17:00
5 May: 12:00–16:00

Entry code: 123 at door and elevator (enter code and then 4th floor)

Plastic Extension of Music

Plastic Extension is a creative tool developed by Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete (PhD Candidate at MHM) for performers to explore different art worlds and deactivate the historical weight of classical music performance by creating new grounds and platforms for classical music performance. These metaphorical vehicles of music, allow the performer, with its own hands, to translate the language, gestures and embodied knowledge of music outside the instrument. Polluting other forms of arts by rethinking music and its performance, emancipating thus, classical music and the performers.

The creative criticism inside Plastic Extension creates infinite and autopoietic methodologies to approach this new performance of classical music, allowing an expansion of the musical piece outside the instrument and sound but at the same time deepening the instrumental practice by creating new knowledge from a different perspective, the plasticity and embodied knowledge of the musical gesture outside the instrument.

Visit the personal website of Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete - chavarria-aldrete.com

Read more about Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete's research on the LU Research Portal - portal.research.lu.se