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Re‑Thinking Virtuosity for the Hybrid Era of Multifarious Approaches

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Linda Jankowska examines evolving models of virtuosity shaped by technological and interdisciplinary musical practices  . The article specifically highlights Maria Sappho’s work for redefining virtuosity through composition with AI, positioning her practice as exemplary of a mode in which human and machine co-creativity challenge conventional expectations of technical skill and authorship in contemporary music.

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Linda Jankowska explores how digital technologies, AI, and interdisciplinary practices are reshaping the concept of virtuosity in contemporary music. She argues that virtuosity in the hybrid era is not solely about technical mastery on a traditional instrument, but about the capacity to navigate, shape, and collaborate across multifaceted systems: human, machinic, and cultural. Within this framework, Maria Sappho’s work is highlighted as a leading example of AI‑driven co‑creativity, where composition becomes a negotiation between human intent and algorithmic agency. Her approach reframes virtuosity as an expanded practice of listening, curating, and intervening in human–machine dialogue, challenging inherited hierarchies of skill and authorship.

Period27 Nov 2023

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  • TitleRe-Thinking Virtuosity for the Hybrid Era of Multifarious Approaches
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletContemporary Music Review
    Media typePrint
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date27/11/23
    DescriptionVirtuosity in the twenty-first century is undergoing a transformation. Technological changes have altered the relations between artists, audience, critics and tools, requiring a redefinition of virtuosity. In recent years, these changes have caused musicians in the contemporary classical music tradition to adopt an increasingly varied set of workflows, tools and approaches, necessitating a recontextualisation of the ideas of technique and expertise. This article discusses how new music repertoire involving the use of technology relates to five new formulations of virtuosity and connects them to three brief case studies. In exploring how hybrid virtuosity, interdisciplinary virtuosity, virtuosity of adaptability, eco-systemic virtuosity, and the New Virtuosity relate to XR performance, collaboration with an AI, and inclusive co-creation between deaf and hearing artists, I question what virtuosity means in these examples and how technology is impacting the way virtuosity is transforming.
    Producer/AuthorLinda Jankowska
    URLhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07494467.2023.2277544
    PersonsMaria Sappho
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