Doctoral Researcher
Ilpo Jauhiainen is a composer, sound artist, music producer and writer (b. 1977 Finland). His work examines the aesthetics of music and sound in relation to complexity, ecology, environment, globalization, urbanism, possible worlds, and the future society. Working collaboratively and globally across the arts, his musical interests revolve around the possibilities and combinations of music and sound art, new global musical styles, contemporary classical and generative music.
Since 2001 Jauhiainen has produced compositions and sound pieces for performance and theatre, contemporary dance, short films, new media, interdisciplinary art exhibitions; created public sound installations in Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the USA; released several solo and collaborative albums; performed concerts in Europe, West Africa and Japan. His works have been presented in the Dak’Art and Marrakech Biennale, Frieze Art Fair, Soundseeing, Musica nova Helsinki, Shubbak Festival, LACMA and the Seattle Art Museum, among others. His related articles and essays to date have focused on sound art practices in Africa and appeared in various publications specializing in African contemporary art.
Currently a docARTES PhD candidate at Orpheus Instituut (MetamusicX research cluster) and Leiden University (ACPA), where his research focuses on the future possibilities of music and sound art from a posthumanist/new materialist perspective, he studied BA Sonic Arts at Middlesex University, MA Sound in New Media at Aalto University, and Artistic Research in Sound at HBKsaar.
Terrestrial: Toward an ecological emergence in music
The research examines the potentiality of emergence and environmental intelligence as a compositional and performative tool. It focuses on a de/reterritorialization process that – to borrow from Deleuzian terminology – is becoming-environment of music and becoming-music of an environment. The key questions are: what is music and what could it become? How could environmentally sensitive and responsive music operate in the age of accelerated environmental change and ever-ubiquitous intelligent technology?
