My research called “Plastic Extension of Music”, is a multidisciplinary process that creates autopoietic methodologies for music performance. 

As a researcher I have developed three different tools for artistic research:

    · Plastic Extension of Music: a creative tool for performers to deactivate the historical weight of the praxis in classical music, exploring and creating alternative interpretations of music performance in different forms of art outside the musical instrument, by creating a new artwork, a "Plastic Extension of Music". These new metaphorical vehicles allow the performer with its body to translate the language, gestures and embodied knowledge outside the instrument in other forms of art, rethinking music and performance, while emancipating classical music and its performers from our long tradition.

    · The Kléndinsky Test: a deep interview with 7 different stations aimed to learn tactile and “visual” perspectives of tuned sound from the blind and the visually impaired. The objective is to unveil the physical and (in)visible form of music, to use these forms in the development of new methodologies of music transcription through the plasticity of music. The result will be a new music language conceived for the hearing-impaired and the deaf. 

    · NABÔKÔ: a sculptural audiovisual toy of 24 organic shapes, each representing a musical note of the quarter-tone scale, assisted by a new technology that reproduces the sound of the sculpture. The objectives of this tool are to emancipate from the mirrored gestures of music performance, create a new ground for the mental images associated with sound and tuned sound, emancipate from music harmony rules and emancipate from brick layering in construction.

Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete (Lyon, 1978) is an artist with various working methods all originating in sound: composition, performance, poetry, theatre, plastic, and visual arts.

International award composer: International Competition Quatuor Molinari (2019) in Canada, Neue Musik Baden-Württemberg e.V. “ad libitum” competition (2021-22) in Germany.

His music has been commissioned by Fondation Banque Populaire, Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, SACEM, Festival Encontrarte, Conarte, Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Monterrey and performed by Ensemble Itinéraire, Orchestre Française de Flûtes, Zoran Dukic, Éric-Maria Couturier and himself. Regularly composes inclusive works, performances with children: sc(herz)o infinito; special needs: (de)cor(o); and elders: forassa. Resident composer at Civitella Ranieri Foundation and XXth Festival Musiques en Charolas-Brionnais.

Since 2020 works on a series of solo compositions of experimental poetry inspired on the troubadour tradition.

As a guitarist he has premiered more than 90 works as a soloist and in chamber music, recorded on several occasions for the radio and labels, including 3 solo albums and playing at the most important halls and festivals in Europe and America. Between 2005 and 2017, in Spain, he co-founded and directed SMASH ensemble, focussed on the creation and promotion of contemporary music.

As of 2015, his work has extended to include the plastic arts developing a new type of interpretation, an intervention in music performance: “Plastic Extension of Music”. Exhibiting and taking part at artistic residences in Spain, Italy, France, Germany and Portugal, his visual work ranges from photography to painting, from sculpture to documentaries.

Currently lives in Malmö working on his PhD, “Plastic Extension of Music,” at Lund University, Sweden.

Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete studied in Mexico (Gregorio Rangel, Edgar Cortés, Andrés Licéaga, Pedro Salcedo, Martín Madrigal), France (ENM d’Aulnay-sous-bois - Judicaël Perroy, Raymond Gratien, Than Hanh Nguyen, Patrick Gallois, José Luis Campana, Octavio López) Netherlands (Koninklijk Conservatorium - Zoran Dukic) and Portugal (Faculdade de Belas Artes of Universidade do Porto - Fernando José Pereira, Pedro Tudela, Carlos Lima).