THE MUSICIAN-INSTRUMENT RELATIONSHIP
This project started out as my MA thesis in Philosophy and is the basis of all my further work. Here I investigate why, how, and when musicians experience their instrument as a part of themselves.
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Keywords: ecological philosophy, activity theory, flow and presence
My work on the musician-instrument relationship is continuously developing.
It started with a thesis in philosophy, in which I used ecological philosophy, activity theory and flow/presence theory (Nijs, et al. 2013).
Next, I integrated Metzingers levels of embodiment (Nijs, 2017).
In a following phase, I focused less on the musician-relationship but elaborated on its context: music performance, and on creativity. Here, I integrated dynamical systems theory (Nijs et al., 2023; Nijs et al., 2023).
In addition, in collaboration with my