ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a concept of the violining body as an enacted, multifaceted, embodied violin- specific musicking act (Small 1998) which incorporates the complexity of idiosyncratic challenges and affordances at play in the context of mixed music performance. Despite a wide scrutiny of mixed music discourse in recent years, the body in the context of mixed music performance has been largely relegated to the periphery of discussion. By looking at the example of Anthèmes II (1994) by Pierre Boulez, this chapter explores the enacted violin-specific body-instrument-environment ecosystemic cohesion as a knowledge-producing phenomenon, where in the process of mediatised transformation of the acoustic sound, the violinist is enacted through a continuous process of adaptation to the environment and centuries-old performance traditions, where innovative electronic technologies are wedded together. Specifically, the idiosyncrasies of sound projection and dynamic differentiation, haptic feedback, and accents are problematised in the context of ecosystemic electrified-violining-body approach to the practice.
