Disputation | Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete: “Plastic Extension of Music”

Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete, PhD candidate at Malmö Academy of Music, will defend his PhD thesis “Plastic Extension of Music”, a new form of interpretation beyond the canonical performance, translation, synesthesia or musical analysis. 

PhD defense exhibition: 16–23 May 2025 More information will be announced soon.
PhD defense: 22 May 2025, at 10:00
Research title: “Plastic Extension of Music”
Location: Inter Arts Center, Red Room, 4th floor, Bergsgatan 29, Malmö
Zoom: The defence is open to the public and it is possible to participate via Zoom. The link will be announced soon.
Opponent: Professor Jean-Marc Chouvel, Sorbonne University
Main supervisor: Kent Olofsson
Second supervisor: Karin Johansson, Jan Eric Olsén (co-supervisor)

“Plastic Extension of Music” is as a new form of interpretation beyond the canonical performance, translation, synesthesia or musical analysis. An artistic intervention in music performance, that is a physical or visual extension in space, taking the instrumental interpretation (praxis) of a musical work as a poetic process preceding a plasticity of the artistic object that emerges in space originated from the music and the interpreter.

“Plastic extension” considers the musical performance as an incompleteness that creates a recollection and awareness of the different elements and codes issued from the score, the musical performance and the interaction with the instrument, to extend with the same hands, the ideas, practise and deconstructed embodied knowledge on different medias issued from other art worlds, as metaphorical vehicles to create new models of music interpretation and plastic-visual art creations.

Read and download Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete's disputation here - portal.research.lu.se

Visit Bertrand’s artist website – chavarria-aldrete.com

Read more about Bertrand’s PhD in the Lund University Research Portal – portal.research.lu.se