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Feedback Instruments and Spaces

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  • Daniele Pozzi
Daniele Pozzi
University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Gustav Mahler University of Music Klagenfurt, Austria
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/music_tec-15484

Published 2025-06-10

Keywords

  • feedback experimentation,
  • electroacoustic instruments,
  • collaborative composition

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Pozzi, D. (2025). Feedback Instruments and Spaces. Musica/Tecnologia, 19(1), 43–77. https://doi.org/10.36253/music_tec-15484

Copyright (c) 2025 Daniele Pozzi

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Abstract

In my compositional practice, I view feedback as an instrument to address spaces of situated sound inquiry. Such spaces are practically intertwined with, and often mutually defining, the material space in which feedback operates. Feedback instruments as such develop at the intersection of these spaces, becoming mediators between artistic concerns and the material affordances that form and inform them. The first part of this article introduces some of these concepts – instrument, medium, material space – by contextualizing them in the current artistic research discourse, and by situating them in selected examples of historical and contemporary feedback-based productions. In the second part I make use of these ideas to illustrate some of my recent works, focusing in particular on the productive intersections between notions of instruments, media, and spaces in feedback practice.

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