Otso Aavanranta is a professor of artistic research at the Uniarts Helsinki. 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 inquiry 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. Otso has led research projects on instrument augmentation, active acoustics, sound materialities, as well as intersubjectivity in music, and is currently working on outdoor electronic music.
