Disputation | Fernando Garnero: “Mutations in the Composable: Compositional Practice as a Space of Experimentation, Tension, and Uncertainty"

Fernadno Garnero, PhD candidate at Malmö Academy of Music, will defend his PhD thesis "Mutations in the Composable: Compositional Practice as a Space of Experimentation, Tension, and Uncertainty", in which he explored a new research approach to extended and diversified musical "composable spaces" and two related problems: multi-level sounds and multi-dimensional sound diffusion situations. Read more about the research project below.

Artistic presentation: 11 May 2025, at 18:00, location: Red Room Read more about the artistic presentation here
Public defense: 12 May 2025, at 10:00, location: Red Room
Research title: “Mutations in the Composable: Compositional Practice as a Space of Experimentation, Tension, and Uncertainty"
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 Andrea Valle, University of Turin
Main supervisor: Kent Olofsson
Second supervisor: Michael Edward Edgerton

At the core of this artistic research project is the idea that composing music can entail more than structuring sonic material; it may involve constructing the very space in which musical thoughts take shape. This space, the composable, is understood not as a fixed, pre-existing framework but as a space in flux-shaped by instruments, devices, spatial configurations, and performative gestures – where musical form materialises through recursive interactions between micro- and macro-levels and between sonic textures and their larger temporal organisation. Within this composable space, musical composition is approached and explored as a dynamic field of interaction where musical knowledge emerges through engagement with sound, technology, and performance.

Read and download Fernando Garnero's disputation here - portal.research.lu.se

Read more about Fernando Garnero in the Lund University Research Portal – portal.research.lu.se