PhD defense exhibition | Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete

Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete, PhD student at the Malmö School of Music, who will defend his dissertation "Plastic Extension of Music" on 22 May 2025, invites you to an extended exhibition that visualises his "Plastic Extensions of Music" in various genres. 

Opening hours:
16 May 2025, at 15:00 – Vernissage
19–21 May 2025, at 13:00–16:00
22 May 2025, at 10:00–16:00
23 May 2025, at 13:00–16:00

“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 poietic 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.

PhD defense concert: 21 May 2025, at 15:00 (Liljefors Hall, Malmö Academy of Music) Read more about the concert here.
PhD defense: 22 May 2025, at 10:00 Read more about the public defense here.
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.
Opponent: Professor Jean-Marc Chouvel, Sorbonne University
Main supervisor: Kent Olofsson
Second supervisor: Karin Johansson, Jan Eric Olsén (co-supervisor)

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

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