ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes an empirical approach to monitoring music performance practice as developed at IPEM, Institute of Psychoacoustic and Electronic Music of Ghent University. It aims to investigate whether quantitative data can be useful for artistic practice and, conversely, to see whether the artistic insights can offer new outlooks to empirical studies on music performance. The chapter briefly describes the mixed methodology, conducted by the performer-researcher, and illustrates possible implementation of the technology-enhanced mirror. This approach is seen as a step towards further studies that will open new frontiers for the innovation in music performance practice and research. Quantitative data can offer a metaperspective for one's own analysis of a performance and provide information for a better understanding of one's own gestures and intentionality. Furthermore, they constitute an alternative way, to the narrative and written methods, to document and transmit knowledge about the embodied interaction in an artistic context.
