Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
Staff Publications 2025
This issue presents the final outcomes of artistic research projects completed and peer-reviewed at RMC in 2025. Each project demonstrates the depth of inquiry and creative experimentation that characterizes our institution’s ongoing commitment to advancing artistic research. Alongside the work presented here, we have also published research through HUB – Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society. In addition, in the spring of 2025 RMC published a series of expositions by graduating students from our Advanced Diploma Program, which are also accessible through our portal.
Voicing Spatial Songs
(2025)
Louise Lind Foo, Sharin Foo
In recent years, it has become a real possibility for artists to engage with spatial sound technologies that allow for movement beyond the stereocentric paradigm. Thus, spatialization has mostly lent itself to avant-garde traditions, electronic music, and sound art. However, the rapid advancements of technologies have called for artists, songwriters, and musicians of all genres to contribute to this development not only by following and fitting into these new formats but also by shaping them through artistic engagements with them. When considering sound in space as a new component in the music creation toolbox, a new dimension is added that provides creative and performative potentials of situating songwriting and music creation within a spatial sound practice. Beyond the literal, what kinds of metaphorical or emotional resonance can emerge from the vibration between various bodies, such as composers, performers, and audiences, as well as bodies of sound, technologies, interfaces, instruments, scene, setting, speakers, aesthetics, and orientations? Voicing Spatial Songs was conducted by avant-pop duo SØSTR, which consists of sisters Louise Lind Foo and Sharin Foo.