Terrestrial: Toward new poetics of geomusics, Ilpo Jauhiainen
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- The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Orpheus Instituut
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My research project Terrestrial: Toward new poetics of geomusics examines the potentiality of emergence and environmental intelligence as a compositional and performative tool. Focusing on the de/reterritorialisation processes of becoming-environment of music and becoming-music of an environment, the key questions are: what is music and what could it become? How could environmentally sensitive and responsive music operate in the age of accelerated environmental change and ever-ubiquitous intelligent technology?
It examines the concept of geomusic as an expanded field of composition and thought, where music becomes a mode of sensing and co-creating with the environment. Drawing on Geophilosophy, Assemblage Theory, and New Materialism, the work redefines the relations between sound, territory, and planetary processes. A key element is the development of Terrestrial AI, a generative system informed by environmental intelligence (an integration of environmental data and knowledge with artificial intelligence), which aims at using ecological and atmospheric data as compositional material. This approach critically reimagines artificial intelligence as a situated, non-anthropocentric agent rather than a tool of imitation, engaging directly with questions of sustainability and posthuman creativity.
Another key aim is the development of the concept of Geomusical Object: hybrid entities that operate as compositions, mappings, and conceptual experiments between geography (physical, human, integrated), music/sound, philosophy (ontology) and atmospherics (ambient poetics), providing a new, more heterogeneous and interconnected way of examining and composing works of music in their relation to/potential for various localities and globalities, actual and virtual.
The project maps the function and creative potential of artificial and environmental intelligence in the formation of such geomusical objects. It seeks to develop the role of composer as that of an active agent within a larger compositional assemblage of human and more-than-human actors; to posit an idea of composer as a facilitator – philosopher, gardener, catalyst – between contemporary society, science and sonic arts.
