Exploded cello : fragmentation and dispersion as strategies for a site-specific improvisational practice

This thesis will enunciate the conceptual model and the practical manifestations of a research project in the context of solo music improvisation based on a particular relation between free improvisation and site-specific artistic practices. My activities as a cellist, sound artist with an academic background in architecture are articulated here to think through solo improvisations as a hybrid relation of concert-installation to a specific time and space.<br><br>This research focuses on a portfolio of concert-installation site-specific work leading to the development of a system comprised of a conceptual framework, an electroacoustic device, a dedicated sonic vocabulary and spatial and temporal strategies.