I’m currently undertaking a PhD at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne with the project Tonality*: Decomposition and Disorientation Through the Diesis. This artistic research looks at theories and practices of experimental music from both the early modern period and the 21st Century through a queer, feminist lens.

This will be guided on the one hand by the concept of tonality*, linking eco- and trans*feminist writings with those on 16th-century intonation systems and “multitonality”; and on the other, by the concept of decomposition, translating Renaissance playing and listening practices to those of today.

My hypothesis is that through the expansion of notions of tonality, experimented with through improvisational techniques, listeners and players can readjust their perceptions and moral prejudices about characteristics associated with Western music, such as purity and being “in tune”, in the same way that queer identities call for a readjustment of perceptions and moral prejudices about bodies and behaviors traditionally considered to be deviant. Through the twin concepts of tonality* and decomposition I aim to demonstrate the interdependence between sound arts and “early” music in order to embrace the queer notions of disorientation, haptics, obliquity, dissonance, and failure.

“Decomposition Study” published in Multiple no.4, ed. Antoine Chessex, November 2025:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3568508/3568509