The ‘Alchemy Project’
Qualitative Transformations in Chamber Music Performance		  
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Research Questions and Problems

The ‘Alchemy Project’ will address three principal musicological / artistic research questions.

  • The central question has two components: In the context of classical chamber music, how does the performerís experience of performing live differ from his/her experience of rehearsing in terms of cognition and affect? What is the relationship between the qualitative transformations that live performance involves, resulting in performances that differ from what has been achieved in the rehearsals, and the cognitive-affective processes shaping the live performance?


  • The second question concerns the conditions of emergence of these qualitative transformations: How can researchers identify and document these transformations and their preconditions?

  • The third research question is directly related to the broader issue of an epistemology of musical performance: What are the mechanisms at work in the acquisition of new knowledge and insights during live performance and how is this knowledge related to both the preparation processes and to the qualitative transformations in question?

 

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