“En hommage à Iannis Xenakis” is a project conceived by the two musicians and researchers, Lorenzo Colombo and Marco Fiorini. While sharing different backgrounds, spacing from contemporary music to non idiomatic improvisation, they have the common intent of constantly experimenting new means of expression, and a shared deep knowledge of electronic music.

The proposed project, to be developed over the next three years, is supported by REACH, an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant, and by IRCAM, in the area of interest of the Musical Representation team at STMS lab. Willing to fulfill the inter-disciplinary objectives designed by the REACH project, this collaboration intends to bring up the potential of Somax2 as an application for musical improvisation and composition in the real world of high level performers and musicians, facing real life scenarios. In this way, the outcome of previous scientific research works is applied to concrete creative situations, building important interactions between music researchers, composers and performers, to reveal the mechanisms of co-creativity and build the epistemological boost required for this creative interaction to succeed.