Orpheus Instituut welcomes Marina Cyrino as visiting researcher
News September 15, 2025October 2025 and February 2026
Her project ofíciorifício investigates how gambiarra and DIY digital fabrication can reimagine flute sound production and performance, combining experimental practice, collaborative prototyping, and critical inquiry.
Orpheus Instituut is pleased to welcome Marina Cyrino as a visiting researcher. During her stay, she will further develop her project ofíciorifício, which explores how gambiarra, an improvised mode of making rooted in Brazilian culture, and DIY digital fabrication can transform both the sonic possibilities of the flute and the subjectivity of the flutist.
Her research critically engages with the European concert flute tradition, which has shaped standardized bodies of flutists and instruments alike. By experimenting with 3D-printed, custom-made extensions and hybrid preparations, Marina reclaims creative agency and proposes alternative ways of listening and performing. These processes highlight vulnerability, joy, and resourcefulness as counterpoints to the normative aesthetics of Western instrumental practice.
My work positions both the flute and the flutist’s body as sites of transformation. Through gambiarra and digital fabrication, I investigate how fragile, improvised, and collaborative practices can invoke an oppositional imagination, a radical reimagining of how a flute can sound. Orpheus offers an environment where thinking and making unfold together, opening space for collective fabulation.Marina Cyrino - PhD, University of Gothenburg
At Orpheus Instituut, Marina will collaborate with Magno Caliman and the Music, Thought and Technology cluster, prototyping experimental extensions for the flute through 3D printing. Her residency will focus on three key areas: developing modular instrumental preparations; explores gambiarra as a method to challenge the masculine constraints of a phallogocentric tradition in flute performance and construction; and contributing as guest editor to an upcoming issue of ECHO journal on gambiarra as aesthetic and political practice.
By situating her project at the intersection of artistic research, digital fabrication, and feminist critique, Marina contributes to urgent conversations on materiality, vulnerability, and collaborative modes of making. Her time at Orpheus also activates the institute’s fabrication space as a laboratory for co-creation, experimentation, and embodied listening.
We warmly welcome Marina Cyrino to our institute and look forward to the insights her research will bring to our community.
