"The project has researched from an artistic perspective the two musical dimensions texture and harmony – surface and colour – through systematic creative investigations with the aim of creating new music. Simultaneously, the project is about how our understanding of these dimensions is partly metaphorical, when we listen to, contemplate on and communicate about music.
A detour through cognitive linguistic theory and embodied cognition has given the project an additional focus on the possible mental representations through which we might perceive the topic, as well as a multiplicity of multiplicity of mappings.
Historically, language depictions of e.g. colour, physicality and emotion have shaped how we have understood harmony and texture. A full generation after Riceur & Lakoff, we might ask if we would ever be able to convey in meaningful ways such dimensions of art and existence in objective or categorical terms. Nonetheless, to create vibrant experimental setups, we sometimes need to think clearly, and to consider our investigation designs in terms that are not solely metaphysical.
The presentation will be in the format of a performance lecture. It will investigate how to move from dichothomy to complementarity on topics such as category versus metaphor, structure versus experience, and historicity versus intuition.
The presentation will be simultaneously artistic as well as reflective. In this way, it intends to address and question which formats we can use to disseminate artistic research."

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