How to live together in sound? Towards sonic democracy
An artistic research project hosted by Uniarts Helsinki and funded by the Kone Foundation
17. February 2025
Aural aestheic research_Rovaniemi
Collective and experimental research framework (University of Lapland)
Alex Arteaga
Excerpt of the event's page
Link to the event's page on the research catalogue: here
On February 17 2025, from 9.30 to 11.30 took place a first "collective and experimental research framework". This format of joint inquiry consists in the performance of an organized set of aesthetic research practices—an ecology of aesthetic research practices in action1—as a way of investigating environments. According to the phenomenological-enactivist conceptual framework within which this research unfolds, "environments" are addressed here as proto-phenomenal presence emerging out of the encounter of researchers and their physicochemical surroundings.
The practices performed in this collective and experimental research framework are denominated "aesthetic research practices of reflexive co-involvement" due to the three functions they intend to fulfill. The first is to induce "aesthetic thinking"2; the second, to facilitate the emergence of a variety of togetherness named "common self" by virtue of the interaction these practices propose; and the third is to provide conditions for sensing and notating the sense that the emergent common self enact3.
The practices performed in this collective and experimental research framework are presented here though the scores used for their facilitation.
