Eleni-Ira Panourgia

Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

Sonic Kinesthetic Forest is an interdisciplinary research project and pedagogical investigation that uses sensory-based, creative methods of drawing, sound, and movement for connecting humans more viscerally to trees and forest landscapes. Our work responds to David Abram’s premise in The Spell of the Sensuous that sensory practices are vital for m...

This article proposes an approach to field recording based on the notion of sonic fictions to examine the reality of the environment and to consider new ways to act on spaces and their representations through sound. Sonic fictions refer to our ability to shape imaginary and virtual worlds through the manipulation of sonic spaces loaded with referen...

Sound is a fundamental element of our relationship to others and to the world. Current environmental, sociopolitical, cultural, and economic dimensions of our society can be captured and studied through sound. This article investigates ways of listening to future versions of our cities. Sound’s role is explored in the transformation of spaces and c...

This third issue of Airea presents a second round of articles in response to our call for contributions 'Revisiting interdisciplinarity within collaborative and participatory creative practice', announced in June 2019. Following the second issue that showcased contributions from sound-related areas, the present collection focuses on the breadth of...

Practical experimentation, technique demonstration and work presentation are indispensable aspects of teaching artistic disciplines. Physical distancing and lockdown conditions during the coronavirus pandemic have been particularly challenging for studio-based courses. With specialist equipment and university facilities being out of reach, higher e...

This paper discusses a method to examine urban sound environments by proposing alternative sensory readings of the city. While sound has great importance for human health, environmental and social well-being, it is conventionally neglected in favour of functional and visual qualities of space. Sound operates beyond the discontinuity of physical bar...

Over the past two decades, collaboration has emerged as a keyword and an important methodological and ethical concern in various disciplines, which has nurtured interdisciplinary approaches that often encompass innovative processes of knowledge production (Marcus 2010). In sonic practice, trends such as participatory art, the workshop turn, and ide...

This article discusses a specific approach to sound from a sculptural perspective, based on an innovative process named "co-composition", in which physical and sonic material can be concurrently produced, rearranged and transformed in a solo environment. This approach investigates ways of working with the direct response of materials to performed a...

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. At the core of this thesis is a m...

The plethora and availability of digital tools and practices have transformed the ways art is created, perceived and disseminated. This had a distinct impact on how research is conducted across the arts and humanities as a whole from practice-led to process-focused and people-centred research. Airea’s first issue “Computational tools and digital me...

This article discusses a prototype that explores the simultaneous manipulation of three-dimensional digital forms and sound. Our multi-media study examines the aesthetic affordances of tight parameter couplings between digital three-dimensional objects and sound objects based on notions of process and user-machine interaction. It investigates how e...

sIREN Conference 2017: Arts and Digital Practices ECA – Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland 30 – 31 May 2017 sIREN ‘Arts and Digital Practices Conference’ explored digital practices and their impact in contemporary artistic contexts. It sought to create an interdisciplinary platform of communication among artistic practices, technologies, theory,...

This paper proposes a method for making generative art in the form of a system based on an interdisciplinary approach combining sculpture and sound. I will explore the possibility of using data from the spectral analysis of sounds as instructions for making sculpture. Inspired by Sol LeWitt's principles and ideas for the creation of generative art...