Between the piano and the pianist/researcher/teacher: some relations of i/material culture

Abstract

The article deals with the discussion about artists who are simultaneously researchers and Art teachers throughout their careers/lives. The conceptual premise is in the understanding that the knowledge produced through the Arts, as space and object, contributes to the subjective constructions of the subjects. One of the concerns translated into question was: what would be the relations of i/material culture between the piano and the pianist/researcher/teacher? Thus, the objective is to reflect on the relations of i/material culture found from the playing/research/teaching through the piano and the life/profession narrative of the first author of this article. Therefore, the methodology chosen was A/r/tography, being one of the methodologies of Educational Research Based on Arts used in Social Sciences and Human Sciences. This interdisciplinary approach constitutes a significant construction of projects, different methodologies and other textual forms, entering the universe of arts (music) and scientific knowledge. In the investigation process, some results were found, among them: that materiality and immateriality are unison/inseparable and that the consonance between the being of things and the being is perceptible, both in the sensitive look and in the listening. The contemplation of the piano as a material object is visual, the sound of the piano, in turn, can be ephemeral, im/material and sensitive, which is sometimes produced by the musician, sometimes by the researcher, and sometimes by the music teacher. music, bringing interdisciplinary contributions in the fields of Music, Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences and Education, without losing the subjectivities inherent to the human being.