Public examination of the artistic doctoral degree of Alejandro Montes de Oca

Title of the doctoral project: Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems – A compositional approach to electroacoustic systems design

  • The board which assessed the ​artistic demonstrations: Otso Lähdeoja (Chair), Bill Brunson, Taina Riikonen, Caspar Stracke and Kalev Tiits. Juhani Liimatainen, Patrick Kosk and Päivi Takala were part of the artistic jury in some doctoral public presentations. 
  • Examiners of the thesis: Meri Kytö and Thor Magnusson 
  • Custos: Jan Schacher

Presentation of the project

This composition-based project of artistic research introduces the term Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems to describe a set of electric, digital and acoustic devices that are interconnected in a particular way to embody a specific sound work. The artistic research states that when the sound composition process occurs in tandem with the electroacoustic system configuration and design process, a particular creative practice is engendered. The main research questions are how the development of such a system becomes another parameter of sound creation, and how this influences the artistic ideas and process elaborated around a specific sound work. In the course of the doctoral trajectory five new sound works were created and presented thus forming the artistic portfolio of this doctoral project. Each work included the composition, design, and creation of a case-specific electroacoustic system. 

Programme

11:00 Sound installation “Aquarmonio” by Aquatrio (Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski, Alejandro Olarte and Alejandro Montes de Oca)

12:00 Public examination

  • Opening of the public examination, professor Jan Schacher 
  • Lectio Praecursoria: Introduction and speech
  • Statement of the artistic components 
  • Statement of the thesis 
  • Discussion 
  • Final statements 
  • Audience questions 
  • Conclusion of the public examination 

More information

Alejandro Montes de Oca
alejandro.montesdeoca@uniarts.fi 

Time

15.10.2022 at 11:00 – 15:00

Location

Black Box

Mannerheimintie 13

00100 Helsinki

Helsinki Music Centre

Tickets

Free admission

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