Mario Bertoncini’s Musical Design Course: Between Renaissance pedagogy and contemporary research-creation

This article explores the Musical Design course offered at McGill University by Mario Bertoncini in 1975–6 in a collaboration between the music department and the department of mechanical engineering. Some of the students independently created a collective named Sonde (originally named MuD from the...

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Published in:Organised sound : an international journal of music technology 2024-08, Vol.29 (2), p.141-150
Main Author: Bertolani, Valentina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Higher education
Knowledge
Mechanical engineering
Music
Music libraries
Theater
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Summary:This article explores the Musical Design course offered at McGill University by Mario Bertoncini in 1975–6 in a collaboration between the music department and the department of mechanical engineering. Some of the students independently created a collective named Sonde (originally named MuD from the name of the course). This unique pedagogical experience, influenced by Bertoncini’s understanding of craftmanship in Renaissance workshops, will be presented as an antecedent of research-creation or artistic practice as research, a ubiquitous and vastly recognised modality of research that has been gaining more and more traction since the early 2000s.
ISSN:1355-7718
1469-8153
DOI:10.1017/S1355771824000098