Welcome
My name is Christophe Novak. I thrive in transdisciplinarity. I am a multi-instrumentalist, independent researcher, and creative thinker exploring self-organization through improvisation in art and life. Dedicated to the holistic exploration of ecological principles of creativity through different channels of expression, practical tools, and theoretical lenses, I compose, produce, and perform music in counterpoint to studying enactive-ecological cognition.
My research explores the phenomenon of musicopoiesis, i.e. the effortless and autopoietic arising of music while improvising, and its relation to the integral psychodynamics of diaphany, with special focus on loop-based live-composing, complex polyrhythms, and non-isochronous meters.
With its perfect blend of melody and rhythm, the marimba is at the heart of my musical explorations. I fell in love with this instrument in my late adolescence. During a period of intense personal struggle, I discovered in the marimba a potent vehicle for transformative self-expression. Out of a cascade of live loop sessions, a vision was born of a truly electroacoustic marimba, the realization of which has been my guiding star for over a decade. The EA-Marimba has been in development since 2016 and is in the final stages of completion.
My passion for the diversity of human creative expression led me to study Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. I have a particular ethnomusicological interest in the continuous integration of world music cultures. Vienna has proven an invaluable creative hub and incubation centre for my artistic and intellectual development, allowing me to engage with various transdisciplinary and transcultural fields. My approach to life and music is rooted in a fundamentally integral attitude, nourished by a deep alchemical pulse that invites me to cultivate a co-creative amalgamation of mind, material, and environment.
In the context of my master's thesis in Cognitive Science, I am currently developing a phenomenologically grounded theoretical framework that illuminates the adaptive transformation of music and consciousness, crystallised in the Co-Enactive Resonance Loop (CERL) model. I strive to share my passion for transdisciplinary creative thinking with others and to accompany individuals and small groups on their path toward self-realisation, co-exploring mind through music and enabling musicopoiesis.
This website is, for now, fundamentally a creative expiration of the many ideas that make up my rhizomatic mind. These pages are intended to be a hub of creative inspiration for the reader and an invitation to actively co-create enabling spaces, where our human propensities for artistic, musical, and scientific curiosity can bloom and thrive.
Vienna 2026