research projects
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Sonic Independence
Trafficking Values
The Sound That Everybody Heard
Mixed Signals
Sonic Independence
Trafficking Values
The Sound That Everybody Heard
Mixed Signals
research artist
Timo's artistic research interests begin in archives and the archeological method. Digging into material evidence the artworks take their forms at the intersection between the history of music and art. The wide range of research interests range from sound and listening, plant cognition, mystery sounds, moral values, urban and social planning, education, art history, to musicology and aesthetics.
statement
I feel like I want to challenge academic research, yet what my research has revealed about the consequences of attempts at subjective science bade me to be cautious. Artistic research gives this possibility in attempting research that can fulfill the rigor criteria of a science, yet it can remain fantasy and a logic to itself. My personal desire to research comes from a simple love of reading history and archives, finding out and understanding the stories and the writers who have chronicled their time. Thus I am driven to following intuitions and leads, at finding out again and again what is behind each step of the narrative.
What interests me in this narratological reading of the relations between arts body from which everyone takes on their poses is that it gives music the political power to shuffle energy towards a single target, art sublimating human desire in the immaterial instance.
What interests me in this narratological reading of the relations between arts body from which everyone takes on their poses is that it gives music the political power to shuffle energy towards a single target, art sublimating human desire in the immaterial instance.
artistic research ethics
Because I am interested in making a music that is of and for bodies I believe ethics and morals are issues to also be discussed in art, and in those ethics I see an ethics of touch. Touch and sound have been my research subjects for the past five years, and while anything can be represented in touch there is a limit at which the representation overcomes the subject. All violence happens in touch and recognizing this fact is valuable to anyone who attempts any research into touch.
Bodies are also useful concepts for organizing related subjects and knowledge. I use knowledge ontologies and by modeling various mappings create categories by which to cross-reference subjects that have emerged from the hypothesis testing.
Bodies are also useful concepts for organizing related subjects and knowledge. I use knowledge ontologies and by modeling various mappings create categories by which to cross-reference subjects that have emerged from the hypothesis testing.