Elide Sulsenti © 2021
Research & Sound Craft
This section of the website gathers and documents a series of devices, instruments, and systems I’ve built or modified over time for musical performance. These projects were born not only from technical needs, but above all from a broader reflection on the role of technical objects in contemporary music, and on their capacity to create relationships and enhance processes of co-creation.
To build (design or re-design) an instrument or instrumental apparatus, for me, does not simply mean to invent something or solve a practical problem—it means to design relationships: between composers and performers, between performer and audience, between body, space, and sound. It means to question the agency of the tools and systems we put into play, their ability to shape gesture and redefine the sense of performance.
The goal of this area is to share processes, to make technical and artistic knowledge accessible, and to promote a culture of care—care for the instruments we use, for the works we interpret, and for the networks of people and objects that make every performative event possible.
DIY Motorised Instruments
Designing and building a new circuit to play Lisa Streich's Pietà
Guide how to build the circuit; an article on the project & more
DIY Sensor-equipped cello bow
Gyro/accel-based controller on a
cello bow
Investigating interactions between gesture and sound; guide how to build the instrument; future projects & more
Page under construction…
