Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems

Alejandro Montes de Oca

This composition-based project of artistic research introduces the term Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems to describe a set of electric, digital, and acoustic devices that are interconnected in a particular way to embody a specific sound work. The artistic research states that when the sound composition process occurs in tandem with the electroacoustic system configuration and design process, a particular creative practice is engendered. The main research questions are how the development of such a system becomes another parameter of sound creation, and how this influences the artistic ideas and process elaborated around a specific sound work. In the course of the doctoral trajectory five new sound works were created and presented, thus forming the artistic portfolio of this doctoral project. Each work included the composition, design, and creation of a case-specific electroacoustic system. An introduction to the concept of Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems, its contextualisation, and an analysis of the artistic practice and the outcomes of each of the five artworks are presented in this written thesis. The complete scope of this doctoral project, including the media material of the artistic portfolio and this artistic doctoral thesis, is contained within the exposition Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems, published and archived in the Research Catalogue online database.

Lap-dog machines:

Pre.sa.uro (2019)

Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems

Sound Composition - Black Box Presentation (Video)

Case-Specific Electroacoustic Systems

Sound Installation

Sound Performance

Aquarmonio ● Half full ● Superguitar_03 ● Lap dog ● Acoustic paths

This page connects with chapter 4 in the artistic doctoral thesis.

Lap-dog Machines: Pre.sa.uro is a sound composition-installation-performance intended to explore translation processes through technology. Three case-specific electroacoustic systems “Lap-dog machines” were especially developed to electrify and transform voice and text in real time: Spatial Sampler, Vocoder Rupestre and Poliglota Type Machine. The sonic-literary machines aim to build a bridge between technology and performer, using pre-recorded text, voice improvisation, singing, recitation, real-time sound transformation, electronically generated sounds and sound spatialisation.

Public presentation: Black Box, Helsinki Music Centre, Finland, January 25th, 2019.

Working group: poet and spoken artist Daniel Malpica, singers Petra Poutanen and Ahmed Kakoyi, modular synthesizer performer Juan de Dios Magdaleno, and composer and live electronics performer Alejandro Montes de Oca.

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