Research fellow
Jonathan Impett is a composer, trumpet player and writer. His work is concerned with the discourses and practices of contemporary musical creativity, particularly the nature of the technologically-situated musical artefact. His early development of the ‘metatrumpet’ constituted one of the first projects to explore instrument, performer, interaction technologies and composer as a single creative space, necessitating new conceptual models. As a performer he is active as an improviser, as a soloist and in historical performance. His recent monograph on the music of Luigi Nono is the first comprehensive study of the composer’s work. Jonathan is currently working on a project considering the nature of the contemporary musical object and the technicity of music. Activity in the space between composition and improvisation has led to continuous research in the areas of interactive systems, interfaces and modes of collaborative performance. Recent works combine installation, live electronics and computational models with notated and improvised performance, using fluid dynamics as a unifying behavioural model based on wave phenomena. The new project Anamnesis takes a radical approach to AI, using transformer models to suggest creative paths implied but unnoticed. Jonathan is also a longstanding member of The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. He is currently a senior researcher at The Orpheus Institute, Ghent, where he leads the research group “Music, Thought and Technology”.
Publicaties
- Impett, Jonathan (2020), Music, Discourse and Intuitive Technology, Accepted for publication in AI and Society (Springer Science) 2020 (Pre-publication draft). (pdf)
- Impett, Jonathan (2020), Dissociation and interference in composers’ stories about music: the renewal of musical discourse, Chapter to appear in Sound Work: Composition as Critical Technical Practice, ed. Jonathan Impett (Leuven University Press, 2020). (pdf)
