Interdisciplinary and new media in the face of the challenges of new musical creation.
Over the last decade, musical creation has consolidated a series of processes that had long been developing in parallel in other artistic disciplines. As a consequence of the performative shift in the arts, the cheapening of creative technologies and a deeply rooted audiovisual culture, “musical” no longer refers exclusively to sound. Performers are therefore confronted with works that require them to take a professional approach to fields that go beyond the dimension of their own instruments, extending to software programming, the manipulation of virtual reality devices or the manufacture of instruments in a kind of post-instrumental lutherie. However, these new perspectives remain marginal within the Spanish educational system.
It is therefore urgent to offer new references and ways of approaching these transformations, enriching the curricula of performers and creators in our country. Only in this way will the sector be able to respond to the needs of a potential public eager for pan-disciplinary projects that respond horizontally to the great challenges of our society.
Alberto Bernal, composer and sound artist.
Óscar Escudero, multimedia composer and performer.
Belenish Moreno-Gil, multidisciplinary artist, performer and musicologist.