Expanding Conducting Practice through Posthuman Assemblage and Artificial Intelligence (researcher: Majella Clarke)

This research investigates aesthetic outcomes from embedding posthumanist performativity, assemblage theory and divergent performance within conducting practices, examining the emergence of the conductor as a compositional agent. It further explores how AI reshapes musical materialities, temporalities and performativity within composition and performance. How might conducting practice expand into a compositional role? And what might that look/sound/feel like? Through divergent performance and experimentation with technologies, ensembles and scoring materialities, this research aims to expand conducting practice contributing to discourses on musical, sonic, visual, gestual, material, temporal and algorithmic aesthetics.