These satellite essays provide extended reflection on the conceptual foundations and methods of this research. They orbit the central work, offering depth where the fragmented grids offer breadth.
Each essay addresses a theme that emerged through the research process itself — not as prior framework, but as understanding won through practice. Some topics, particularly method and musical identity, appear both here and in the Starter Essay. This is deliberate: method in artistic research is not a single statement but a recurring question, returned to as the work develops. The same holds for identity, which is not a premise but a discovery.
Together, the essays form a constellation: Multiple Identities and Musical Identity establish the conceptual terrain; Machine Musical Identity extends it into human-machine collaboration; Method, Process, Reflection addresses how practice becomes research; Archival Listening and Trust examine specific modes of working; Result as Concept asks what it means for artistic work to answer a research question; and Contribution positions this research within its field.
These are not summaries of the artistic work. Album III and the concert speak for themselves. The essays instead articulate what became thinkable through making — the knowledge that practice produces but cannot always declare.