Research Catalogue

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. An introduction to the concept of Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems, its contextualisation, and an analysis of the artistic practice and the outcomes of each of the five artworks are presented in this written thesis. The complete scope of this doctoral project, including the media material of the artistic portfolio and this artistic doctoral thesis, is contained within the exposition Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems, published and archived in the Research Catalogue online database.

This exposition is the audiovisual companion to the Organised Sound article entitled: Co-Sounding: Fostering Intersubjectivity in Electronic Music Improvisation (Otso Lähdeoja & Alejandro Montes de Oca, 2020). The exposition showcases research documentation consisting of 23 video examples with explanatory notes, interview transcriptions, and electronic instrument design schematics. References and discussion pointing to the documentation exposed herein may be found in the Organised Sound article. The documentation shows three successive stages of research on the technological mediation of musicians' intersubjectivity within the electronic music context. A) Duo work on modular synthesizer B) '4-hands' deejaying C) Web-mediated music-making using digital audio workstation software and remote hardware control.