

I use old analogue guitar pedals and my own computer programming side by side, processing the original piano sound. I call the instrument the HyPer(sonal) Piano, a name derived from the suspected interagency between the extended instrument (HyPer), the personal (my poetics) and the sonal result (music and sound). I have made an augmented grand piano using various music technologies. And so it goes… These are the development loops I am talking about. The change of ideas demands another music and another instrument, because the instrument should cater to my poetics. This change in the instrument will show me other poetics and change my ideas. The change in performative needs will change the instrument, because it needs to do different things.

The change of music will change my performances. The change of composition will change the music. This adaptation of the instrument will change the way I compose. The instrument I am developing, a grand piano with electronic augmentations, is adapted to cater my poetics. How can I develop a grand piano with live electronics through iterated development loops in the cognitive technological environment of instrument, music, performance and my poetics?
