Otso Aavanranta
- Professor, Research Institute, Research Institute
- +358469216117
- otso.aavanranta@uniarts.fi
Publications in the research database (76)
Introduction
Otso Aavanranta is a professor of artistic research at the Uniarts Helsinki, composer, guitarist, and researcher in digital arts. He holds a doctorate in music from Paris 8 University, with past research appointments at Concordia University, Canada and Mons University, Belgium. Otso’s approach is rooted in research–creation: combining exploratory artistic creation and academic enquiry into a mutually feeding loop. While the tools and methods of his research stem from music and technology, the themes of enquiry open up to larger, cross-disciplinary questions concerning ecological interdependencies as well as the interplay between technology and society. Otso has led research projects on instrument augmentation, active acoustics, sound materialities, as well as intersubjectivity in music, and is currently working on theories and practices of outdoor off-grid electronic musicianship.
https://www.uniarts.fi/en/projects/exosound-artistic-technological-and-social-prospects-for-environmental-sonic-arts/
https://otsola.org