REFLECTIONS

What is a collective? What do I mean by sound collectives? By cultural sustainability?

Welcome to a conceptual framework in progress.

• Learning from a 500.000 year old music culture – the European Reed Warbler… June 2025 –
• Discovering Hidden Sounds: Art and Science in Nature January 2025 – Introduction My latest artistic research explores how to give the forest a voice – literally! It’s a journey blending art, science, and sound design. Using a special microphone called a geophone, I’m trying to uncover the hidden world of vibrations within trees and soil, translating them into musical forms. The Geophone: A Window into the […]
• Listening to the Forest’s Metabolism December 2024 – My current artistic research explores the sonic expression of a forest’s metabolism. I’m using specialized microphones to capture the subtle vibrations and sounds produced by living organisms and ecological processes, and then translating these patterns into musical sound. My goal is to create a unique kind of concert experience where the forest itself becomes a […]
• VLOG 4: Nearing True Machine-Musician Interaction? Exploring Rhythm through Fractal Proportions February 2024 – We are nearing our objective of enabling our computer to interact with a live musician in a manner that closely resembles the interaction with another musician. In this fourth vlog, we explore the user interface developed by Samuel Peirce-Davies, which employs the ml.markov object to learn music from MIDI files. Our aim is to extend […]
• Kant I? – Does improvising improve self-esteem? March 2022 – In this episode, composer Casper Hernández Cordes draws on his own experiences with improvisation and as a teacher to reflect on the relation between open artistic practices and selfhood.
• Epilogues – improvising a sound ecosystem February 2022 – Listen and subscribe on your preferred podcast service:
• Problem solving in math and music – what is the connection? January 2022 – Solving math problems is satisfying. Listening to music is satisfying. Is there a connection?
• Has musical composition influenced the discovery of the DNA? December 2021 – Has musical composition influenced the discovery of the DNA? Geneticians have used musical composition as a means to understand genetic data. How about the other way around? Has the development of the musical notational system in Western Europe made the idea of code in living organisms possible?
• How to keep track of my artistic research? December 2021 – Since I started working with music as an ecosystem, I ran into a problem: How can I keep track of all the different variations/spinoffs/mutations? I needed a kind of coding system, and after some thought, I came up with the following. Color codes as a naming system The thought of giving the improvisations a number […]
• Invitation – explore with us*! November 2021 – I would like to invite you to a place. It is a place, I have invented. It’s a musical composition called “Last Dream”. I made this composition by improvising on the piano.