Complete harpsichord works
Claude Balbastre
A complete recording project joining source study, French Baroque tuning, historical space and high-resolution sound to approach Balbastre’s keyboard music on its own terms.
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INÉGAL LAB
Research made useful to the work.
The practice
Musicological and interdisciplinary research for artistic, academic and institutional projects. The Lab brings source work, historical context and contemporary practice into the same conversation.
Research in progress
Projects that need
time and attention.
Selected work under development across source research, recorded interpretation and editorial practice.
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Long-form project
François Couperin
Source work, historic rooms, instruments and recorded interpretation considered as one continuing enquiry.
↗Applied research pilot
Warsaw · Historically Plausible Sound
A research project on how historical fortepianos, specific rooms and recording choices reshape both the performer’s response and the sound of historically informed practice.
In progressSenior practice
Scholarship with consequence.
INÉGAL Lab
Alberto Rodríguez Molina
Research · Laboratory practice
Research direction connecting music scholarship, sound, technology and recorded artistic practice.
A Doctor in History and Music Sciences, Alberto Rodríguez Molina leads INÉGAL Lab at the meeting point of research and production. His background encompasses acoustics and sound, music computing and electronics, composition, and phonographic and audiovisual production. As co-founder of CMY Baroque, he also brings an active research-led catalogue into the Lab: a practical setting in which sources, historical instruments, performance decisions and recorded outcomes can inform one another.
- Lab remit
- Research programmes · institutional partnerships · music and technology
- Working model
- Senior specialists and research associates selected specifically for each brief
- Selected scope
- Musicology · acoustics & sound · music technology · editorial and recorded research
Practice team
Musicology & research
Project-specific scholars and subject specialists selected around repertoire, period and source base.
Editorial & documentation
Bibliographic, archival and editorial support for releases, institutions and public-facing research.
Digital heritage & innovation
Technology and data expertise brought together for cultural collections and research-led products.
Identity reference: institutional photograph, UNIR
Capabilities
Where we add
value.
Scope is tailored to the project. Every engagement begins with a clear definition of need, responsibility and outcome.
Musicological research
Historical, theoretical and contextual work carried out with clear sources and methods.
Cultural analysis
Context for repertoire, archives, institutions and public programmes.
Editorial & academic support
Research design, writing, review and documentation for publications, recordings and conferences.
Music, technology & society
Questions about tools, systems and cultural change in musical making and listening.
Our approach
Question
Start with a question specific enough to be answered.
Research
Follow the sources, the evidence and the relevant disciplines.
Translate
Put the findings into a form the project can use.
We welcome research commissions, institutional collaborations and publication enquiries.
Lab enquiries