What question did this study set out to answer?

The aim is to explore how technological resonance fosters collaboration and alternative listening in music.

April 23, 2026

Sound~Currents

Key Points

The aim is to explore how technological resonance fosters collaboration and alternative listening in music.
Utilized transducer speakers, electromotors, and microphones integrated within musical instruments.
Established a tactile network among instruments and environments during ensemble performances.
Conducted a concert and created an exposition for artistic reflection on the outcomes.
A symbiotic network emerged, allowing sounds to resonate across different instruments.
Enhanced listening modes that engage different senses beyond just hearing.
Development of a diverse portfolio of artistic expressions through collaborative improvisation.

Abstract

Sound~Currents grows elaborate musical ecosystems where sounds from electronic and acoustic instruments ripple through one another in a resonant, electromagnetic field. The resonances among instruments, people, and spaces are physically and conceptually interlinked and guide how we make music together. When fixing transducer speakers, electromotors, and microphones inside musical instruments in ensembles, a symbiotic, tactile network emerges in which the sounds from one can vibrate the surfaces, membranes, and strings of the other. This practice enables a queering of agency where one is reciprocally "sounding through" and "playing" the other. It establishes a uniquely interwoven sonic ecology, where borders between electronic sounds, acoustic instruments, and actants become fuzzy. This ambiguity creates a rich, shared sonic environment, resulting in a broad portfolio of artistic outcomes. Sound~Currents explores how resonance, technologically engendered through vibrational transduction, unveils other pathways to co-creation and alternative listening modes, thereby challenging, expanding, and diversifying current improvisational music practice. When transducer speakers shake, we can listen with our skin. When they overheat, we smell sounds escaping the human ear. The PhD result comprises a concert in Bergen on November 29, 2025, and a Research Catalogue exposition. The RC exposition documents the final concert and additional artistic outcomes, as well as material documenting artistic reflection. keywords:

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