Terrestrial: Toward an ecological emergence in music

Ilpo Jauhiainen

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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?