new LOOS researchers for 2023
Ege Sahin
Title: Soaked To The Ears
Ege Sahin will explore what new possibilities emerge from an arrangement of a multi-channel music performance/installation of six oil drums with speakers and lamps inside. The sounds coming out of the speakers are sonic interactions of human and non-human objects in and around a harbour.
Elif Gülin Soguksu
Title: “an inquiry into meaning in conjunction with the frameworks of identity, gender, and culture”
The research is about pushing expressive boundaries of the voice by using technology and exploring its sound-shaping capacity in electroacoustic music in which limitations of voice expression can be hugely dependent on historical aspects, socio-cultural norms and conditioning factors of the performer. The question is how to preserve immediacy, intrinsicity, expressiveness, malleability of the voice while it is radically abstracted by technology
Kaat Vanhaverbeke
Title: "extra-dimensional accordion playing using a surround sound system"
How can I broaden the extra-dimensional aspect of accordion playing from using 3D bellows to creating a spatial performance using a surround sound system? This experiment continues my master's thesis in which I study directional possibilities regarding bellows movement and their impact in musical interpretations. I want to enhance this spatiality using electronic amplification.
Tilen Lebar
Title: Mnemonic relationships and perception of sound
Immersive is immersive. Ambisonics or immersive sound technology, the closest representation approach,is based on natural tone sequences. The human ear seeks a natural approximation vh sound. Hypothesis: Ambisonics offer us a more pragmatic perception of sound. Is the immersive trajectory dependent on the perception of time? What is the perception of gradually formed immersive environments due to impulsive movements? Where are the perception points for listeners?
Sarah Elizabeth Wentink
Title: “Victor Wentink: Het onderzoek naar mijn vader”
I want to research the extraordinarily differentiated oeuvre of my recently deceased father: composer, pioneer within electronic music and creator of the very first social network in the world VICTOR WENTINK.
I want to use this research and the grant we receive to explore the different disciplines that his work encompasses out of one: art, technology, science, philosophy and poetry. I want to see if it is possible perhaps to develop a documentary in order to delve deeper into the complexity of his work, and at the same time build a bridge between the different fields of knowledge so that they can become attractive.
