Ce mémoire porte sur le rôle du geste musical dans le développement de styles musicaux devenus syncrétiques. Il s’attarde à définir dans le détail le style de guitare populaire assiko propre aux Bassa du Cameroun du Sud lequel est représenté internationalement par le guitariste et percussionniste traditionnel Atna Njock. Grâce à une approche dialogique et participative, les techniques du jeu assiko sont explorées et comparées à des exemples de jeu de guitare européenne, afro-américaines et africaines. Les influences qui définissent le jeu d’Atna découlent de la culture Bassa et de son histoire marquée par l’influence coloniale et missionnaire, mais sont aussi alimentées par la «philosophie» (voire la spiritualité) et le passé musical de l’artiste. L’approche participative fournit une perspective émique, c’est-à-dire interne à la culture, de la gestuelle et de la structure du jeu assiko même si nous confrontons les propos du musicien à notre propre regard analytique. La comparaison avec divers instruments de percussion auxquels Atna a été initié montre comment ceux-ci ont forgé son jeu guitaristique. Son rôle de « garant » de la tradition musicale Bassa influence son approche et se manifeste par une préoccupation particulière pour l’« authenticité » dans la reproduction des rythmes d’un « langage » musical donné. Ses liens avec la culture Bassa, s’expriment notamment par le biais de sa reproduction du style de jeu de son maître, Jean Bikoko « Aladin ». La contribution particulière d’Atna à la technique de guitare de Bikoko est comprise comme un ajout à la lignée ancestrale. Une analyse d’un morceau du répertoire assiko issu du plus récent album d’Atna illustre d’ailleurs comment son incorporation de styles « modernes » reproduit les processus traditionnels en intégrant des éléments culturels étrangers. / This master’s thesis is concerned with the role of musical gesture in the development of musical styles that have become syncretic. It seeks to define in detail the popular guitar style of assiko, particular to the Bassa of Southern Cameroon, as represented internationally by the guitarist and traditionally initiated percussionist, Atna Njock. Through a dialogic and participative approach, the techniques that underlie assiko guitar playing are explored by comparison with European, African American, and African examples. The influences that define Atna’s playing are contextualized within Bassa culture, with its troubled history of colonial and missionary influence, and elaborated by an account of his particular musical philosophy (or spirituality) and background. The participatory approach provides an emic perspective, meaning internal to the culture, of assiko playing technique and structure while subjecting the musician’s statements to our own analytical scrutiny. The comparison with the various percussion instruments on which Atna was initiated demonstrates how these instruments shaped his guitar playing. His role as “guarantor” of Bassa musical tradition underlies his approach to music, which manifests as a particular concern for “authenticity” in the reproduction of the rhythms of a given musical “language”. His connection to Bassa culture is ultimately expressed through his reproduction of the playing style of his master, originator of modern assiko, Jean Bikoko “Aladin”. Atna’s particular contribution to Bikoko’s guitar technique is conceived as adding to the ancestral lineage. An analysis of a current assiko piece from Atna’s most recent album demonstrates how his incorporation of “modern” styles reflects traditional processes of incorporating foreign cultural elements.

Este trabalho analisa o uso de interfaces físicas digitais na criação e performance da música eletroacústica em tempo real, sobretudo pelo conceito de gesto musical. Para tal propósito, primeiramente, foi realizado um estudo sistemático de dois objetos centrais para pesquisa, a saber, as interfaces digitais e o conceito de gesto em música. Revisitamos alguns elementos sobre a construção de instrumentos musicais digitais, acrescentado novas perspectivas à luteria digital a partir da concepção de gesto musical, como por exemplo, na concepção de mapeamento. Além disso, levantamos algumas questões estéticas referentes tanto a compreensão destas interfaces como instrumentos musicais quanto seu uso na composição musical e na performance do live electronics. O conceito de gesto musical, por usa vez, é compreendido neste trabalho como uma questão emergente da prática musical na contemporaneidade. Apontamos para os diferentes entendimentos das pesquisas em música sobre os significados contidos neste conceito, como suas dimensões corporal e sonora e suas capacidades cinética e semântica. Assim, expandimos o conceito de gesto musical em um contexto que utiliza estas interfaces para ideias como as de corporalidade, fisicalidade e causalidade. Posteriormente, propomos a junção entre os elementos presentes no conceito de gesto musical com os elementos constitutivos das interfaces e com a prática de criação musical e performance mediada por elas, principalmente sobre o ponto de vista da causalidade. Desta maneira reconhecemos que o relacionamento entre as ações corporais e os movimentos sonoros contribuem para a significação musical nas práticas que utilizam interfaces físicas digitais. Identificamos que estas relações de causalidade podem se apresentar desde modelos físico-naturais de coerência gestual, como em relações artificiais entre gesto e som e seus substituintes. Finalmente, é apresentada uma metodologia de análise para performances que utilizam estas interfaces, como aqui compreendidas, que contemplam tanto como a interface se apresenta para o músico que a toca quanto como a relação entre performer e interface podem ser compreendidas pelo espectador-ouvinte. Estas proposições demonstram como as interfaces estão inseridas em um contexto que considera o corpo como um elemento estético na criação da música eletroacústica ao vivo. / This research analyzes the use of digital physical interfaces in the creation and performance of electroacoustic music in real time, especially the concept of musical gesture. For this purpose, first, we conducted a systematic study of two central objects for research, namely, digital interfaces and the concept of gesture in music. We revisit some core elements of the construction of digital musical instruments, added new perspectives to digital luthiery from the concept of musical gesture as the mapping. In addition, we raised some aesthetic issues both an understanding of these interfaces as musical instruments as their use in musical composition and performance of live electronics. The concept of musical gesture, in turn, is understood in this study as an emerging issue of musical practice nowadays. We pointed to the different understandings of research in music about the meanings contained in this concept, as body and sound dimensions and kinetic and semantic capabilities. Thus, we have expanded the concept of musical gesture in a context that uses these interfaces to ideas such as corporeality, physicality and causality. Subsequently, we propose the junction between the elements present in the concept of musical gesture with the constituent elements of the interfaces and the practice of music creation and performance mediated by them, especially on the point of view of causality. Thus we recognize that the relationship between bodily actions and sound movements contribute to the musical significance in practices that use digital physical interfaces. We identify that these causal relationships may present from physical and natural models of gestural coherence, as artificial relationship between gesture and sound and their surrogates Finally, it is presented a methodology for performances that use these interfaces, as here understood, which include both how the interface is presented to the musician that plays much like the relationship between performer and interface can be understood by the viewer-listener. These proposals demonstrate how the interfaces are inserted in a context that considers the body as an aesthetic element in the practice of the live electroacoustic music.

Este trabalho analisa o uso de interfaces físicas digitais na criação e performance da música eletroacústica em tempo real, sobretudo pelo conceito de gesto musical. Para tal propósito, primeiramente, foi realizado um estudo sistemático de dois objetos centrais para pesquisa, a saber, as interfaces digitais e o conceito de gesto em música. Revisitamos alguns elementos sobre a construção de instrumentos musicais digitais, acrescentado novas perspectivas à luteria digital a partir da concepção de gesto musical, como por exemplo, na concepção de mapeamento. Além disso, levantamos algumas questões estéticas referentes tanto a compreensão destas interfaces como instrumentos musicais quanto seu uso na composição musical e na performance do live electronics. O conceito de gesto musical, por usa vez, é compreendido neste trabalho como uma questão emergente da prática musical na contemporaneidade. Apontamos para os diferentes entendimentos das pesquisas em música sobre os significados contidos neste conceito, como suas dimensões corporal e sonora e suas capacidades cinética e semântica. Assim, expandimos o conceito de gesto musical em um contexto que utiliza estas interfaces para ideias como as de corporalidade, fisicalidade e causalidade. Posteriormente, propomos a junção entre os elementos presentes no conceito de gesto musical com os elementos constitutivos das interfaces e com a prática de criação musical e performance mediada por elas, principalmente sobre o ponto de vista da causalidade. Desta maneira reconhecemos que o relacionamento entre as ações corporais e os movimentos sonoros contribuem para a significação musical nas práticas que utilizam interfaces físicas digitais. Identificamos que estas relações de causalidade podem se apresentar desde modelos físico-naturais de coerência gestual, como em relações artificiais entre gesto e som e seus substituintes. Finalmente, é apresentada uma metodologia de análise para performances que utilizam estas interfaces, como aqui compreendidas, que contemplam tanto como a interface se apresenta para o músico que a toca quanto como a relação entre performer e interface podem ser compreendidas pelo espectador-ouvinte. Estas proposições demonstram como as interfaces estão inseridas em um contexto que considera o corpo como um elemento estético na criação da música eletroacústica ao vivo. / This research analyzes the use of digital physical interfaces in the creation and performance of electroacoustic music in real time, especially the concept of musical gesture. For this purpose, first, we conducted a systematic study of two central objects for research, namely, digital interfaces and the concept of gesture in music. We revisit some core elements of the construction of digital musical instruments, added new perspectives to digital luthiery from the concept of musical gesture as the mapping. In addition, we raised some aesthetic issues both an understanding of these interfaces as musical instruments as their use in musical composition and performance of live electronics. The concept of musical gesture, in turn, is understood in this study as an emerging issue of musical practice nowadays. We pointed to the different understandings of research in music about the meanings contained in this concept, as body and sound dimensions and kinetic and semantic capabilities. Thus, we have expanded the concept of musical gesture in a context that uses these interfaces to ideas such as corporeality, physicality and causality. Subsequently, we propose the junction between the elements present in the concept of musical gesture with the constituent elements of the interfaces and the practice of music creation and performance mediated by them, especially on the point of view of causality. Thus we recognize that the relationship between bodily actions and sound movements contribute to the musical significance in practices that use digital physical interfaces. We identify that these causal relationships may present from physical and natural models of gestural coherence, as artificial relationship between gesture and sound and their surrogates Finally, it is presented a methodology for performances that use these interfaces, as here understood, which include both how the interface is presented to the musician that plays much like the relationship between performer and interface can be understood by the viewer-listener. These proposals demonstrate how the interfaces are inserted in a context that considers the body as an aesthetic element in the practice of the live electroacoustic music.

Orientador: José Augusto Mannis / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T00:23:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Corilow_Ivan_M.pdf: 12476534 bytes, checksum: 04886bc4e8590f06b40b437ed7ea3eab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: A proposta deste estudo cujo foco é a obra Arcos sonoros da catedral Anton Bruckner ¿ meditação sinfônica (1996) do compositor Almeida Prado é apresentar uma reflexão norteada por três tipos de análises: a estrutural, onde materiais e técnicas composicionais são investigados; a semiótica, que trata da compreensão e interpretação de significados expressivos presentes no texto musical e a comparativa, com a função de identificar semelhanças e aproximações entre esta obra de Almeida Prado e as sinfonias de Bruckner. Após breves exposições sobre Almeida Prado e sobre a obra sinfônica de Bruckner, bem como a apresentação da fundamentação teórica, o estudo se centraliza nos gestos empregados por Almeida Prado ao longo da peça. Na medida em que as análises vão sendo efetuadas, a integração das três vertentes analíticas é constantemente buscada, na intenção de que os resultados alcançados possam proporcionar uma visão o mais integral possível de cada gesto presente. A edição digitalizada da obra, baseada no manuscrito de Almeida Prado e a composição de uma obra com base neste estudo fazem parte do trabalho / Abstract: The purpose of this research on Arcos Sonoros da Catedral Anton Bruckner - meditação sinfônica (1996) by the composer Almeida Prado is to present a reflection that is guided by three types of analysis: ¿ Structural: investigating materials and compositional techniques. ¿ Semiotic: understanding and interpreting expressive meanings present in the musical text. ¿ Comparative analysis: identifying similarities and approaches between this work of Almeida Prado and Bruckner symphonies. After a brief presentation about Almeida Prado and Bruckner¿s symphonies, as well as a review of the related literature, the research focuses on the gestures used by Almeida Prado throughout the work. The integration of the three analytical lines is constantly done so that the achieved results may provide wide view of each gesture present in the piece. Attached to this research are the digitalized edition of Almeida Prado¿s Arcos Sonoros, based on his manuscript and the composition of a work based on this study / Mestrado / Processos Criativos / Mestre em Música

Au cours du XXe siècle, le geste est progressivement devenu un paramètre de composition musicale dans les répertoires de tradition savante occidentale. Les avant-gardes (Dada, futurisme, Bauhaus, expressionnisme, etc.) sont à l’origine du concept de performance tandis que le bruitisme élargit le domaine des sons esthétiquement audibles. Rejetant le grand opéra romantique et tous ses attributs (technique de chant lyrique, suprématie du texte dramatique sur la musique, fosse d’orchestre, illusion de la réalité, opulence orchestrale, entractes, etc.) les compositeurs ressentent le besoin de s’exprimer autrement, tandis que la capacité de renouvellement du système tonal s’étiole. Ils définissent de nouvelles formes musicales scéniques dans un cadre dicté par la performance et selon une nouvelle conscience de l’écoute issue de nombreuses expérimentations réalisées en studio. C’est au lendemain de la seconde guerre, c’est-à-dire lors de l’avènement de la musique concrète, que la voix s’impose non plus seulement comme le vecteur de la parole mais également comme un générateur de sons, que l’espace scénique se vide de l’interprète et que, en retour, certains compositeurs (Mauricio Kagel, Dieter Schnebel, Luciano Berio, John Cage, pour ne citer qu’eux) proposent des pièces hybrides où la musique côtoie la diction d’un récitant, la pantomime ou l’action théâtrale sans que l’une des composantes ne prenne constamment le dessus sur les autres. Selon une approche empirique du corps médiatisé par le truchement de la captation vidéo (sur un corpus s’étalant de 1960 à 2016), il est possible de mettre en lumière des contrepoints d’informations provenant de plusieurs éléments des performances enregistrées (musique, gestes, déplacements, lumière, etc.), qui construisent en fin de compte une réalité signifiante pour l’auditeur-spectateur. En analysant directement les oeuvres performées, il apparait que le geste est en effet un élément structurel de caractère spectaculaire qui participe à la création de formes discursives et, par-là, il constitue un élément indispensable de la réception. En se focalisant sur la paramétrisation du geste, le présent travail apporte un premier élément de réponse à la question suivante : comment la performance musicale, dans son aspect vivant, intègre le geste et comment celui-ci influe-t-il la forme ? Il espère ainsi ouvrir la voie à une musicologie du théâtre musical contemporain. / Over the course of the 20th century, gesture gradually became a parameter of musical composition in the repertoires of the Western classical tradition. The avant-garde (Dada, futurism, Bauhaus, expressionism, etc.) is at the origin of performance concept while noise music broadens the field of aesthetically audible sounds. Rejecting the romantic opera and all its attributes (lyrical singing technique, supremacy of the dramatic text over music, orchestra pit, the illusion of the reality, orchestral opulence, intermissions, etc.), composers feel the need to express themselves differently, while the capacity for renewal of the tonal system wanes. They define new scenic musical forms in a framework dictated by performance and in accordance with a new awareness of listening resulting from numerous experiments carried out in the musical studios. After World War II, with the advent of concrete music, the voice became not only the vector of speech but also a generator of sound, the scenic space was rid of the performer and, in return, some composers (Mauricio Kagel, Dieter Schnebel, Luciano Berio, John Cage, to name but a few) offered hybrid pieces where music is combined with the diction of a narrator, pantomime or theatrical action, without one component constantly getting the upper hand. According to an empirical approach to the body mediated through video recording (based on a corpus stretching from 1960 to 2016), it is possible to highlight counterpoints of information from several elements of the recorded performances (music, gestures, movements, light, etc.), which ultimately construct a meaningful reality for the listener-spectator. By directly analysing the performative works, it appears that the gesture is indeed a structural element of a spectacular nature that participates in the creation of discursive forms and, consequently constituting an indispensable element of reception. By focusing on the parameterisation of the gesture, this work provides a first element of answer to the following question: how does musical performance, in its living aspect, integrate the gesture and how does it influence the form? In this way, it hopes to pave the way for a musicology of contemporary music theatre.

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This thesis engages with complex issues of musical expression and movement, and their relation, on the one hand, to musical structure and, on the other hand, to embodied musical experience. It aims to fill a gap in music theory and analysis: most methods overemphasise abstract conceptualisation of structural relations at the expense of the more dynamic, intuitive aspect of musical experience. As a solution, it offers a specific analytical method that can be used to explore dynamic aspects of music as experienced through the whole body. Drawing mainly on nineteenth-century piano music, I analyse aspects of structure in both composition and performance in terms of expressive and motional qualities, revealing the relationship between musical and physical movement. Expressivity in music derives its meaning, at least partly, from the embodied experience of music: performers shape expression through their whole body while listeners react to it in a comparable way, albeit less overtly. Two related systems of graphic notation are introduced, which provide a non-verbal means of representing expressive movement and at the same time encourage an immediate, visceral relationship to the music. The first notation captures the animated quality of expressive movement by analogy with the motion of a bouncing ball, while the second breaks down the expressive musical flow into discrete gestural patterns of specific motional character. While the ultimate value of this method lies in the analytical process it instigates, it also provides a novel theoretical framework that sheds light on the interaction, as well as integration, between structures such as metre, rhythm, harmony and voice-leading, which are traditionally studied mostly independently. In addition, it provides a useful tool for the study and communication of performance interpretation, based on data extracted from recordings in the form of tempo and dynamic fluctuation graphs.

Esta dissertação consiste de um memorial do processo de construção da performance das Seis Danças Romenas de Béla Bártok por uma perspectiva da cognição corporificada. Fundamentada na proposição de objetos sônico-gestuais coarticulados de Godøy (2006; 2011) e na abordagem gestual de Pierce (2007) esta pesquisa investigou através da prática artística como gesto e som modelam-se mutuamente e de que maneira esse processo contínuo influencia a concepção da obra e as relações entre performer, música e instrumento. Considerando que as vivências do corpo não se limitam à prática pianística, foram trazidas perspectivas de experiências externas que contribuíram para a consciência corporal e que proporcionaram insights relevantes para a condução do processo artístico. A abordagem metodológica reúne a Pesquisa Artística e a Autoetnografia no que concerne desvelar o conhecimento corporificado inerente a um processo de criação artística através da narrativa pessoal. A documentação do processo compreendeu: 1) anotações em um diário das vivências, aulas de piano e sessões de estudo; 2) gravações de vídeo de sessões de estudo; 3) gravações de performances ao longo do processo; 4) comparação entre a gravação final da performance da obra e a primeira gravação realizada em momento anterior à pesquisa. Estes registros foram examinados com o propósito de compreender o processo artístico de uma perspectiva de corpo e música em constante estado de devir, identificando os momentos de insights mais significativos, e mapeando os recursos criativos elaborados pela performer ao longo do processo. As reflexões da performer acerca do processo conduziram a um reconhecimento de si mesma como sujeito corporificado, a perceber a música como fenômeno essencialmente corporal, e a transformações na concepção da obra. O processo artístico centrado no corpo acarretou mudanças significativas na interação da performer com o instrumento, o desenvolvimento de um maior repertório gestual, um incremento dos recursos expressivos, e o refinamento da percepção auditiva, promovendo o desenvolvimento da criatividade e da autonomia artística, bem como da maturidade emocional. / This dissertation is the performer’s account of the process of constructing a performance of Béla Bártok’s Romanian Folk Dances from the perspective of embodied cognition. Based on Godøy’s proposition of gestural-sonic coarticulation (2006; 2011), and Alexandra Pierce’s gestural approach to piano performance (2007), this research investigated how gesture and sound shape one another, and how this continuous process affects the conception of the work and the relations between performer, music and instrument. Considering that lived experience exceeds piano practice, perspectives from extra-musical activities were considered due to their contribution towards promoting bodily awareness and insights that were relevant to the artistic process. The methodological approach draws from Artistic Research and Autoethnography in regard to uncovering embodied knowledge ingrained in the process of artistic creation through personal narrative. The documentation of the process comprised: 1) a journal describing practice sessions, piano lessons and extra-musical experiences; 2) video recordings of practice sessions; 3) video recordings of performances along the process; 4) a comparison between the final performance and the first recording of the piece made prior to the present research. These records were examined with the purpose of comprehending the artistic process from the perspective of body and music in a constant state of becoming, identifying the most meaningful moments of insight, and mapping creative resources devised by the performer during the artistic process. The performer’s reflections upon the process lead to recognizing oneself as an embodied subject, to perceiving music as an essentially corporeal phenomenon, and to transformations in the conception of the musical work. The artistic process centered on the performer’s body promoted significant changes in the performer’s interaction with the instrument, the development of a broader gestural repertoire, an increment in expressive resources, and the refinement of aural perception, fostering the growth of creativity and artistic autonomy, as well as emotional maturation.

Esta dissertação consiste de um memorial do processo de construção da performance das Seis Danças Romenas de Béla Bártok por uma perspectiva da cognição corporificada. Fundamentada na proposição de objetos sônico-gestuais coarticulados de Godøy (2006; 2011) e na abordagem gestual de Pierce (2007) esta pesquisa investigou através da prática artística como gesto e som modelam-se mutuamente e de que maneira esse processo contínuo influencia a concepção da obra e as relações entre performer, música e instrumento. Considerando que as vivências do corpo não se limitam à prática pianística, foram trazidas perspectivas de experiências externas que contribuíram para a consciência corporal e que proporcionaram insights relevantes para a condução do processo artístico. A abordagem metodológica reúne a Pesquisa Artística e a Autoetnografia no que concerne desvelar o conhecimento corporificado inerente a um processo de criação artística através da narrativa pessoal. A documentação do processo compreendeu: 1) anotações em um diário das vivências, aulas de piano e sessões de estudo; 2) gravações de vídeo de sessões de estudo; 3) gravações de performances ao longo do processo; 4) comparação entre a gravação final da performance da obra e a primeira gravação realizada em momento anterior à pesquisa. Estes registros foram examinados com o propósito de compreender o processo artístico de uma perspectiva de corpo e música em constante estado de devir, identificando os momentos de insights mais significativos, e mapeando os recursos criativos elaborados pela performer ao longo do processo. As reflexões da performer acerca do processo conduziram a um reconhecimento de si mesma como sujeito corporificado, a perceber a música como fenômeno essencialmente corporal, e a transformações na concepção da obra. O processo artístico centrado no corpo acarretou mudanças significativas na interação da performer com o instrumento, o desenvolvimento de um maior repertório gestual, um incremento dos recursos expressivos, e o refinamento da percepção auditiva, promovendo o desenvolvimento da criatividade e da autonomia artística, bem como da maturidade emocional. / This dissertation is the performer’s account of the process of constructing a performance of Béla Bártok’s Romanian Folk Dances from the perspective of embodied cognition. Based on Godøy’s proposition of gestural-sonic coarticulation (2006; 2011), and Alexandra Pierce’s gestural approach to piano performance (2007), this research investigated how gesture and sound shape one another, and how this continuous process affects the conception of the work and the relations between performer, music and instrument. Considering that lived experience exceeds piano practice, perspectives from extra-musical activities were considered due to their contribution towards promoting bodily awareness and insights that were relevant to the artistic process. The methodological approach draws from Artistic Research and Autoethnography in regard to uncovering embodied knowledge ingrained in the process of artistic creation through personal narrative. The documentation of the process comprised: 1) a journal describing practice sessions, piano lessons and extra-musical experiences; 2) video recordings of practice sessions; 3) video recordings of performances along the process; 4) a comparison between the final performance and the first recording of the piece made prior to the present research. These records were examined with the purpose of comprehending the artistic process from the perspective of body and music in a constant state of becoming, identifying the most meaningful moments of insight, and mapping creative resources devised by the performer during the artistic process. The performer’s reflections upon the process lead to recognizing oneself as an embodied subject, to perceiving music as an essentially corporeal phenomenon, and to transformations in the conception of the musical work. The artistic process centered on the performer’s body promoted significant changes in the performer’s interaction with the instrument, the development of a broader gestural repertoire, an increment in expressive resources, and the refinement of aural perception, fostering the growth of creativity and artistic autonomy, as well as emotional maturation.

Esta dissertação consiste de um memorial do processo de construção da performance das Seis Danças Romenas de Béla Bártok por uma perspectiva da cognição corporificada. Fundamentada na proposição de objetos sônico-gestuais coarticulados de Godøy (2006; 2011) e na abordagem gestual de Pierce (2007) esta pesquisa investigou através da prática artística como gesto e som modelam-se mutuamente e de que maneira esse processo contínuo influencia a concepção da obra e as relações entre performer, música e instrumento. Considerando que as vivências do corpo não se limitam à prática pianística, foram trazidas perspectivas de experiências externas que contribuíram para a consciência corporal e que proporcionaram insights relevantes para a condução do processo artístico. A abordagem metodológica reúne a Pesquisa Artística e a Autoetnografia no que concerne desvelar o conhecimento corporificado inerente a um processo de criação artística através da narrativa pessoal. A documentação do processo compreendeu: 1) anotações em um diário das vivências, aulas de piano e sessões de estudo; 2) gravações de vídeo de sessões de estudo; 3) gravações de performances ao longo do processo; 4) comparação entre a gravação final da performance da obra e a primeira gravação realizada em momento anterior à pesquisa. Estes registros foram examinados com o propósito de compreender o processo artístico de uma perspectiva de corpo e música em constante estado de devir, identificando os momentos de insights mais significativos, e mapeando os recursos criativos elaborados pela performer ao longo do processo. As reflexões da performer acerca do processo conduziram a um reconhecimento de si mesma como sujeito corporificado, a perceber a música como fenômeno essencialmente corporal, e a transformações na concepção da obra. O processo artístico centrado no corpo acarretou mudanças significativas na interação da performer com o instrumento, o desenvolvimento de um maior repertório gestual, um incremento dos recursos expressivos, e o refinamento da percepção auditiva, promovendo o desenvolvimento da criatividade e da autonomia artística, bem como da maturidade emocional. / This dissertation is the performer’s account of the process of constructing a performance of Béla Bártok’s Romanian Folk Dances from the perspective of embodied cognition. Based on Godøy’s proposition of gestural-sonic coarticulation (2006; 2011), and Alexandra Pierce’s gestural approach to piano performance (2007), this research investigated how gesture and sound shape one another, and how this continuous process affects the conception of the work and the relations between performer, music and instrument. Considering that lived experience exceeds piano practice, perspectives from extra-musical activities were considered due to their contribution towards promoting bodily awareness and insights that were relevant to the artistic process. The methodological approach draws from Artistic Research and Autoethnography in regard to uncovering embodied knowledge ingrained in the process of artistic creation through personal narrative. The documentation of the process comprised: 1) a journal describing practice sessions, piano lessons and extra-musical experiences; 2) video recordings of practice sessions; 3) video recordings of performances along the process; 4) a comparison between the final performance and the first recording of the piece made prior to the present research. These records were examined with the purpose of comprehending the artistic process from the perspective of body and music in a constant state of becoming, identifying the most meaningful moments of insight, and mapping creative resources devised by the performer during the artistic process. The performer’s reflections upon the process lead to recognizing oneself as an embodied subject, to perceiving music as an essentially corporeal phenomenon, and to transformations in the conception of the musical work. The artistic process centered on the performer’s body promoted significant changes in the performer’s interaction with the instrument, the development of a broader gestural repertoire, an increment in expressive resources, and the refinement of aural perception, fostering the growth of creativity and artistic autonomy, as well as emotional maturation.