My research is always initiated and propelled by challenges I face as an artist, and the results of the research, in their turn, nourish my artistic output. I consider my research activities having two interrelated parts.
The first part is academic research in writing form and has generally to do with aesthetics of listening, and particularly, to do with aesthetics and analysis of electroacoustic music listening from the viewpoint of phenomenology. My papers have been presented in SEAMUS (2003), ICMC (2009), Synthese Festival (France, 2009), Journées d’Informatique Musicale (JIM 2010, France), and Pierre Schaeffer Conference (Croatia, 2010), and published in the ICMC Proceedings and JIM Proceedings as well as Organised Sound, one of the most authoritative journals in electroacoustic music. My recent two articles, one on the critical overview on Shaefferian phenomenology and the other on temporality and listening, will be published in Pierre Schaeffer Conference Proceedings (2011) and Kunsttexte (2011; kunsttexte.de), respectively.
The second part of my research is practice-led, and has mainly to do with my sound installations and presentation methods of electroacoustic composition. The research has focused both on creating immersive listening spaces charged with semiotic connotations by utilizing multi-channel, point-source spatialization techniques and on creating and situating sound-making objects in space by combining found objects with handmade electronics. Two such examples are my installations, Thinking Tree, and A Travel Log: From Fwarrheu to Hejning.
