Research

As Adjunct Professor at the Department of Music of the Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC) in the city of Florianópolis, Brazil, Luigi Antonio Irlandini is a member of the Research Group MUSICS - Música, Cultura e Sociedade. To see more information about the group click here: Busca Diretório de Grupos de Pesquisa do CNPq and, once at the CNPq site, type "MUSICS" at the first field and enter.

Irlandini's research and composition are deeply intertwined. The research includes two large topics: non-western influx in contemporary music, and archetypal symbolism in music.

Non-western influx in contemporary music

The study of the influence, in both classical and popular western contemporary music, including the twentieth century, of non-western musical and aesthetic traditions, with enphasis (but not limited) to traditions from India, Tibet, Japan, Indonesia and Africa. The wide spectrum of this research includes the study of musical language in all its constituing elements (rhythm, melody, harmony, timber, texture), and of the non-western aesthetic concepts that modify, generate, or simply confirm new aesthetic, structural and musical concepts in the western music of today.

For more information about other papers and lectures given until 2010 on this topic, please refer to the page "Lectures, Paper Presentations, Lecture/Recitals" in this website.

As a member of the Research Group MUSICS, Irlandini's research in this topic is currently focused on the project "Koellreutter and Scelsi: Two Paths of Indian and Japanese Music and Esthetics in Twentieth-Century Music". The project includes the production of three analytical papers about the subject, and a concert of Hans-Joachim Koellreutter and Giacinto Scelsi's chamber music works.

Archetypal Symbolism in Music

Music structure and becoming are here studied as carriers of a archetypal, non-musical meaning. The study includes not only music composition but also music in general, from any culture, in which structure and music rethoric symbolise archetipal and cultural contents. This research begun in 2004 with the presentation of the paper "Cosmicizing Sound" at the Institute of World Culture in Santa Barbara, California and has continued with the work on spirals and music. At the same time, this research has in-formed Irlandini's artistic production since 1986 with the composition Numen.

For more information about other papers and lectures given until 2010 on this topic, please refer to the page "Lectures, Paper Presentations, Lecture/Recitals" in this website.