The residency includes a solo performance at the Experimental Sound & Art Festival and an 'Open Studio' in March.
I will work on the musical development of my current project mute. and start a collaboration with TWS Artist Yuko Kamei.
Besides studying well-established composers, I will meet and work with emerging Japanese composers and visit concerts, rehearsals, lectures and workshops in and around Tokyo.

Residency Report
Research and overall activity for your project during your residency.
My research had two main focuses:
1.- the study of traditional Japanese music: instrumental and singing techniques, theatrical forms such as Noh and Kabuki and how they have evolved. The Japanese approach to voice is a field that connects with my musical background and with my current doctoral research for the Sorbonne University.

2.- The study of Japanese contemporary music: the works of well-established composers, especially of emerging ones, and the stylistic similarities and differences to the European landscape.
Furthermore, I continued to develop my current multimedia project mute. and saw how this new knowledge would influence it.

Research and overall activity for the project of which subject is related to "Tokyo", or to the city in which he stayed.
Obviously, for the interests mentioned above, Tokyo turned out to be the perfect place to work.  
Thanks to TWS' broad connections, I was able to meet composers Toshi Ichiyanagi, Yasuno Miyauchi, Atsuhiko Gondai, Motoharu Kawashima and Sumihisa Arima, among many others, and listen to their works in various concerts in and around Tokyo (Experimental Festival, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Yokohama Kanagawa Kemmin Hall etc.).
Also, I had the opportunity to visit performances and concerts and had access to specialized literature and recordings of traditional Japanese music.

About the cultural exchange he interacted during the residency.
My stay at TWS was an extremely fruitful experience in terms of exchange and interaction. I was able to discuss multiple aesthetic issues with TWS residents and other local artists, especially the exchange with photographer and dancer Yuko Kamei, which led to a collaboration that was to be presented at the Open Studio:
I met Miss Yuko Kamei at the beginning of my stay. I was very interested in her approach to body and dance in photography and it was my wish to initiate exploring possible interactions with music. We first used the composition musica per amici by Sylvano Bussotti for dance and piano. We avoided the most common dance figurations and aimed for more abstract series of still and geometric movements. These movements seemed to be paired with the music, sometimes to contradict it and sometimes even anticipate it.
Although the public performance didn't take place due to the cancellation of Open Studio, we held  a private performance.

How and in what way he achieved a result compared it with his original residency purpose and plan.
a)  In terms of the production
Due to the earthquake on March 11th, some activities, such as meetings with composers, were unfortunately cancelled.
Obviously, my early departure left some expectations unfulfilled.

b) In terms of the cultural exchange
For instance, the collaboration with Yuko Kamei reached an initial level of development, but could have continued much further.

How the residency experience has changed the way of his apprehension towards the role and the possibility of the Art.
The stay at TWS offered me the chance to encounter many other artists and art forms, which made me more sensitive to other possibilities of my current activity. The interview with Prof. Janwillem Schrofer and his lecture inspired me and deepened my understanding of art. I think my approach to art has gained in political engagement.  

How and in what way the project you worked on during your residency will develop further from now on.
During my stay, I worked on my current project mute. This will be premiered in April  2011 in Frankfurt. Mute. is a multimedia performance for three musicians, live electronics and live video. In Tokyo, I was composing the music and was very aware of the use of live video by some artists at the Experimental Festival, especially the work of Yung-Ta Chang, which has became an important inspiration for me.