Research questions

Research questions #

The project’s aim is to generate aesthetic positions in the work with digital sound synthesis that open up speculative alternatives unreachable from standard positions. This opening is motivated by a number of fundamental artistic questions that stem from our practices as sound artists, composers and performers working with generative sound processes:

  • What are the consequences of regarding composition as sound synthesis and sound synthesis as musical composition?

  • How can one concieve of sound synthesis processes that do not create subdivisions of sonic properties but seek to derive all sonic properties from a unified dynamic?

  • What are the generative potentials of technologies for timbral transformations beyond their subservient functioning in higher-level aims?

  • How can the generative potential of computational technologies become aesthetic?

  • How can an objectifying perspective be confronted with a process-oriented aesthetic of sound?

  • How does the tension between control and emergence play out in artistic practice?

  • What are the specific potentials of sound, as digital data, traces of computation, and perceptual object, in this constellation of technology and aesthetics?