ExoSound
The research project investigates and develops artistic, technological and social prospects for participatory electronic sound arts that take place outdoors.
Introduction
Drawing from the mobile technologies paradigm shift, the ExoSound project contributes to the development of electronic sound practices in an off-grid, outdoor context, with a specific focus on relationality, environmental coupling, and participatory agency. The project envisions future forms of sonic culture, where groups of participants join in to co-inhabit their local environment through shared sonic agency enabled by the existing parc of personal mobile devices, and form an experiential connection with the sound, each other, and the place. The shift to an environmental setting questions the very fundamentals of studio-based sonic arts, such as the silent, individual, laboratory-like listening conditions of the studio space, performer-listener positionalities, reproducibility and situatedness of the sound work, as well as the according technological standards.
Within this project, technology is understood as a “socio-material arrangement”, an interlacing of material and social actions. The environment is constituent of this arrangement, with its inherent ethical and ecological imperatives. To be operable within the socio- material complex, the enquiry is designed as a cross-disciplinary project at the interface of technological development, socio- environmental situatedness and artistic experimentation, merged into a mutually supporting, comprehensive action-research framework. The research team will comprise researchers from music technology, sociology, and artistic research.
The project opens three intertwined lines of enquiry into sonic agency within the outdoor environment: 1) developing lightweight, weatherproof, and wireless tools for environmental sound practices, 2) researching the social dynamics of sound practices transposed to an environmental and public space, and 3) developing environmental, participatory and situated experimental artistic practices with the abovementioned tools and social settings.
The research outputs involve artworks and contributions to the artistic research corpus, open-source technological tools as well as academic outputs in the project’s three disciplines. It contributes to the environmental turn in electronic sound practices, as well as to a shift in sonic arts’ social impact by reinvigorating local social tissue, place-sense and participatory culture.
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Project name
ExoSound: artistic, technological and social prospects for environmental sonic arts
Time
09/2024-08/2028
Funder
Research Council of Finland
Team
Otso Aavanranta
Oleksandra Nenko
Alejandro Montes de Oca
Dominik Schlienger
Contact
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Otso Aavanranta
Professor, Tutkimusinstituutti, Research Institute+358469216117otso.aavanranta@uniarts.fi
Introduction
Drawing from the mobile technologies paradigm shift, the ExoSound project contributes to the development of electronic sound practices in an off-grid, outdoor context, with a specific focus on relationality, environmental coupling, and participatory agency. The project envisions future forms of sonic culture, where groups of participants join in to co-inhabit their local environment through shared sonic agency enabled by the existing parc of personal mobile devices, and form an experiential connection with the sound, each other, and the place. The shift to an environmental setting questions the very fundamentals of studio-based sonic arts, such as the silent, individual, laboratory-like listening conditions of the studio space, performer-listener positionalities, reproducibility and situatedness of the sound work, as well as the according technological standards.
Within this project, technology is understood as a “socio-material arrangement”, an interlacing of material and social actions. The environment is constituent of this arrangement, with its inherent ethical and ecological imperatives. To be operable within the socio- material complex, the enquiry is designed as a cross-disciplinary project at the interface of technological development, socio- environmental situatedness and artistic experimentation, merged into a mutually supporting, comprehensive action-research framework. The research team will comprise researchers from music technology, sociology, and artistic research.
The project opens three intertwined lines of enquiry into sonic agency within the outdoor environment: 1) developing lightweight, weatherproof, and wireless tools for environmental sound practices, 2) researching the social dynamics of sound practices transposed to an environmental and public space, and 3) developing environmental, participatory and situated experimental artistic practices with the abovementioned tools and social settings.
The research outputs involve artworks and contributions to the artistic research corpus, open-source technological tools as well as academic outputs in the project’s three disciplines. It contributes to the environmental turn in electronic sound practices, as well as to a shift in sonic arts’ social impact by reinvigorating local social tissue, place-sense and participatory culture.