Peter Bastian is a multi-instrumentalist from Copenhagen, Denmark.
Educated in classical bassoon, he’s seen
- As Adrian Freed likes to point out, the virtuosity is not in the the instrument
- Adapting Simondon, the technicity is distributed across the knowledge incorporated into (literally!) the bodies of practitioners;
the articulated, institutionalized socially-mediated discipline of playing wind instruments; as well as the genealogical refinement of the instruments.
- It is important that Peter Bastian was trained in and on classical bassoon. But the fact that he can subsequently transpose his practiced skill shows that the body and the instrument, seep deeply into one another (“gearing", to adapt from Merleau-Ponty), there is no hard line between body and instrument.
