Abstract

[An “orchestrated” democracy? Interview with Timoti Fregni, President of Spira Mirabilis]. Spira mirabilis is an orchestra without conductor holding concerts since 2007. This interview with its president, the violinist Timoti Fregni, aims to understand the decision and choice processes taking place when there is no conductor, namely the person who usually decides and chooses. This interview aims also to understand whether and why it is legitimate to liken – as it is frequently done – this kind of collective choice processes to the processes put in place in a democracy.