Deniz Peters

Deniz Peters is a Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) in Austria, serving as Head of the Artistic-Scientific Doctoral School KWDS, Chair of Curricula Commission XIII for Dr.artium, and Co-Head of the FWF Project P 34449 'The Epistemic Power of Music'. His academic position is centered at the Center for Artistic Research in Graz, Austria.

Peters is an artistic researcher in music with a focus on expression, empathy, improvisation, and the theory and methods of artistic research. His approach of 'artistic exploration towards conceptual refinement' combines artistic practice with aesthetic and phenomenological inquiry. His research examines how musical experience confronts listeners with emotions that may not be their own, distinguishing between musical and social empathy.

His scholarly work investigates the relationship between embodiment and musical experience, particularly in electronic music contexts where the coupling of action and sound generation is altered or effaced. Peters' publications reveal how composers', performers', improvisers' and listeners' bodies, as well as works' and technologies' figurative bodies, serve as rich sources of expressive articulation that reclaim performativity.

His research projects include the Embodied Generative Music (EGM) project, which explores interactive performance environments and the relationship between dance and sonic perception. Peters' publications span interdisciplinary perspectives including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, dance, interactive performance arts, sociology, computer music, and sonic arts.

• Head, Artistic-Scientific Doctoral School KWDS
• Chair, Curricula Commission XIII – Dr.artium
• Co-Head, FWF Project P 34449 – The Epistemic Power of Music