Instruments

The instrument on which the music is made always plays an important role in the music’s creation. It is the framework within which the music can be made, delimiting sound resources, aesthehic parameters, possible playing techniques, range, and dynamics and a host of other parameters. GOArt began with the concept that the instrument that was available to the improvisor or composer is the best possible teacher for that repertoire. GOArt has been engaged in researching a dynamic relationship that can be expressed simply as: a study of the interaction between the music and the musician, mediated through the instrument. Our experience is that the organ, the most complex musical instrument ever devised, has many facets and possible interfaces to other disciplines from iconography to fluid dynamics to traditional woodworking, inorganic chemistry, musicology, sociology and beyond. And not least, performance.