Lycouris, Sophia

Pedreschi, Remo

Durant, Yati

Panourgia, Eleni-Ira

other

2019-09-11T15:54:16Z

2019-09-11T15:54:16Z

2019-07-04

This practice-based research employs sculptural and sound practices, and their mediation through representation, notation, technologies and performance, to develop an innovative compositional process named co-composition, in which physical and sonic material can be concurrently produced, rearranged and transformed.\nAt the core of this thesis is a multi-layered mode of thinking, informed by an understanding of emerging morphologies and the relationships formed between and across the two modalities of sound and sculpture. Taking as starting point materials and their qualities, while engaging with aesthetics and theories of minimalism and sound studies, this research seeks to introduce a co-compositional mode of creative and critical engagement, as the main research tool. Central themes are action, process, trace and time.\nMoving beyond an approach of forming analogies between modalities, this research explores a mode of navigating\nacross dimensions of sculpture and sound through a dialogue between theory and practice. The methodological approach is reflective and generative, borrowing from both traditions to develop new methods through practical exploration which emerge as part of the research process. Furthermore, analytical tools and technological mediation are employed to inform and expand how co-composition takes place in a solo environment and how this process is experienced by both the artist-performer and audience.\nThe thesis comprises a series of practical works and experimentations on co-composition, and a written text, which is critically engaging with the concepts and the progression of the research.

http://hdl.handle.net/1842/35963

en

The University of Edinburgh

PANOURGIA, E. I. (2016) Spectrogram data as system for making sculpture. IN: SODDU, C., ed. 19h Generative Art Conference GA2016, 2016, Florence, Italy: 19h Generative Art Conference GA2016, pp179-199.

PANOURGIA, E. I., WHEELAGHAN, F. & YANG, X. (2018) Digital interactions: Sound and three-dimensional forms. Airea: Arts and Interdisciplinary Research, 1, 3-10.

Katerina Talianni, Eleni-Ira Panourgia, Jack Walker, and Roxana Karam. 2018. "Editorial", Airea: Arts and Interdisciplinary Research, issue 1, 1-2. doi: 10.2218/airea.2748.

Eleni-Ira Panourgia and Jing Zhao. 2018. "SoundMapp - Participatory design in museum space", The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 11 (1): 27-35, doi:10.18848/1835-2014/CGP/v11i01/27-35.

Eleni-Ira Panourgia & Jing Zhao. 2017. "A Participatory Music Journey in Museum Space", in Program booklet of the Twelfth International Conference on the Arts in Society 14–16 June 2017 at the American University of Paris, France. Published by Common Ground Research Networks, Champaign, Illinois, 2017, p.107.

sculpture

sound

co-composition

performance art

practice-based research

materiality

Co-composition processes: form, structure and time across sculpture and sound

Thesis or Dissertation

Doctoral

PhD Doctor of Philosophy