Exploration of future lutherie, where tradition, innovation, and the environment enter into dialogue to create instruments adapted to new human and non-human contexts.
As instruments gain agency through history and AI, should they also gain legal recognition?
Speculative music in science fiction expands music’s role as cultural memory, emotional refuge, and tool for future-world storytelling.
Speculative design in lutherie transforms music by exploring possible futures, sonic innovation, and the musician-instrument relationship.