Dr James Andean

James Andean is a musician and sound artist. He is active as a composer, performer, and lecturer in a range of fields, including acousmatic music, electroacoustic composition and performance, improvisation, multidisciplinary performance, and studio recording & production. 

Music, Technology & Innovation Research Group

(2023) ‘Group Performance Paradigms in Free Improvisation’, Organised Sound Vol. 27 #2, August 2023, Cambridge University Press.

(2020) ‘Rhythm in Acousmatic Music’, Organised Sound Vol. 25 #2, August 2020, Cambridge University Press.

(2019) ‘Questioning the 'Experimental': Electroacoustic Improvisation as 'Experimental' case study’, in Proceedings of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference, Florence (Italy), June 20-23, 2018.

(2018) James Andean & Andrew Bentley, ‘In Search of the Nordic Electroacoustic’, in The Nature of Nordic Music, ed. Tim Howell, Ed. Taylor & Francis, Aldershot.

(2018) ‘Of Nations, Studios, and Other Electroacoustic Myths’, in Confronting the National in the Musical Past, eds. Elaine Kelly, Markus Mantere and Derek B. Scol, Routledge, Abingdon.

(2018) Jame Andean & Alejandro Olarte, ‘Sound Practices: The “Sonic” and the “Musical” in Interdisciplinary Improvisation’, in Music and Sonic Art: Theories and Practices, eds. Mine Doğantan-Dack et John Dack, Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge.

(2016) ‘A Temporal Basis for Acousmatic Rhythm’, Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 26, December 2016, MIT Press.

(2016) ‘Narrative Modes in Acousmatic Music’, Organised Sound Vol. 21 #3, December 2016, Cambridge University Press.

(2016) ‘Space and Place in Acousmatic Music’, in Memory, Space, Sound, eds. Johannes Brusila, Bruce Johnson & John Richardson, Intellect Books, Turku.

(2016) James Andean & Merja Nieminen, ‘Multimodality in Audiovisual Art’, in Son – Image – Geste : Une interaction illusoire? eds. Lenka Stránská & Hervé Zenouda, Ed. L'Harmattan, Paris.

(2014) ‘Sound and Narrative: Acousmatic composition as artistic research’, Journal of Sonic Studies Vol. 7.

(2014) ‘Towards an Ethics of Creative Sound’, Organised Sound, Vol. 19 #2, August 2014, Cambridge University Press.

(2014) ‘Research Group in Interdisciplinary Improvisation: Goals, Perspectives, and Practice’, in This and That: Essays on Live Art and Performance Studies, ed. Annele Arlander, University of the Arts Helsinki.

(2014) ‘Sound’, in Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, ed. William Forde Thompson, Ed. Sage, Thousand Oaks.

(2014) ‘Towards a Narratology of Acousmatic Music’, in Proceedings of the 2014 Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference: Electroacoustic Music Beyond Concert Performance, Berlin, June 2014.

(2014) 'Re:****Sitruuna ja meduusa', IssueX 3/2014.

(2014) ‘Five Compositions’, Tidskriften Plir, Issue #1.

(2013) ‘Electroacoustic Performance Practice in Interdisciplinary Improvisation’, Emille: Journal of the Korean Electroacoustic Music Society, Vol. 11.

(2013) ‘Championing the Finnish Concrète: The Transmissions and Distractions of Patrick Kosk’, Musiikin Suunta: Journal of the Finnish Ethnomusicological Society, Vol. 3/2013.

(2013) ‘Electroacoustic Performance Practice in Interdisciplinary Improvisation’, in Proceedings of the 2013 Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference: Electroacoustic Music in the Context of Interactive Approaches and Networks, Lisbon, June 2013.

(2013) ‘Wind Piece #1 & #2’, in Closet Music: Imagined Soundworlds, ed. Janet Oates.

(2013) ‘Research Group in Interdisciplinary Improvisation’, Kolmetoistataide, 1/2013 #3.

(2012) ‘Cultural Relativism in Acousmatic Music’, Musiikin Suunta: Journal of the Finnish Ethnomusicological Society, 2/2012.

(2012) James Andean & Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski, ‘Working Methods of the Sound & Motion Improvisation Research Group, Helsinki’, Reflections on Process in Sound, Vol. 1.

(2012) ‘The Future of Electroacoustic Pedagogy’, in Proceedings of the 2012 Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference: Meaning and Meaningfulness in Electroacoustic Music, Stockholm, June 2012.

(2012) ‘An Embodied Approach to Acousmatic Music’, in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Symposium for Music Scholars in Finland, Jyväskylä 21.-23.3.2012.

(2012) ‘Cleome / Gliese 581c’, Titanik-gallerian julkaisu: Havainto No.5, Autumn 2012.

(2011) ‘Ecological Psychology and the Electroacoustic Concert Context’, Organised Sound Vol. 16 #2, August 2011, Cambridge University Press.

(2011) ‘The Musical and the Narrative in Acousmatic Music’, in Finnish music research 100 years: proceedings of the celebrational symposium, ed. Pääkkölä, Anna-Elena.

(2010) Andean, James, ‘The Musical/Narrative Dichotomy: Sweet Anticipation and some implications for acousmatic music’, Organised Sound Vol. 15 #2, August 2010, Cambridge University Press.

(2009) ‘A Canadian Electroacoustician in Finland’, eContact!, Vol 11 #2, July 2009.

(2019) James Andean: Assemblance(s) [CD], empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 19157.

(2017) VCA, Ceres [CD], Creative Sources Records, CS 478. 

(2016) 'Déchirure',  Prix Presque Rien [CD], Association Presque Rien.

(2015) ‘Psygeío’, Deep Wireless 11. 

(2015) James Andean & Visa Kuoppola, ‘Pimeydestä valoon’, ink&coda issue 2.2.

(2015) ‘At the First Clear Word’, Huellkurven issue 3. 

(2014) Rank Ensemble, Papilio Noblei [CD], Leo Records, LR 703.

(2014) ‘Between the Leaves’, ‘Mahtavaa’, ‘Radiate’, MUU for Ears 12 [CD]. 

(2014) ‘Outgribe’,  Deep Wireless 10. 

(2013) ‘Syros Soundscape’,  Green Field Recordings - World Listening Day 2013, GFR 069.

Electroacoustic composition and performance; acousmatic music; sound art; sound diffusion; improvisation; interdisciplinary performance; sonic narrative; studio recording and production

Programme Leader, BSc Music Production

Doctor of Music, University of the Arts Helsinki

Master of Music, Sibelius Academy

Bachelor of Music, McGill University

(2022) Awards Lecture (Art & Science) : ‘Stories from Sound’, British Science Festival.

(2019) ‘Valdrada’, Honorable Mention - fixed medium, MA/IN 2019, Matera, Italy.

(2015) MADATAC06 Digital Arts Awards,
Audiovisual installation Re:****Sitruuna ja meduusa: 1st Prize, Installations category 

(2014) Lumen Prize, Audiovisual installation Re:****Sitruuna ja meduusa: Creative Coding Award 

(2014) Sonic Arts Awards, Composition Psygeio: Honorable Mention (First) 

(2013) Presque Rien Competition, Composition Déchirure: 2nd Prize 

(2013) Destellos Competition, Audiovisual installation Re:****Sitruuna ja meduusa: Honorable Mention, Mixed Media category

Co-founder/co-chair, British Electroacoustic Network

President, Canadian Electroacoustic Community

Society of Finnish Composers / Audio Engineering Society / International Computer Music Association / Electroacoustic Music Studies Network / European Sound Studies Association / Canadian Electroacoustic Community / Association Presque Rien / Charm of Sound - Aänen Lumo / Canadian Association for Sound Ecology / Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology

Qualsafe Level 3 Award in Mental Health First Aid in the Workplace (RQF)

 

(2019) ‘Sensing Sound: Experiencing Electroacoustic Improvisation’. Electroacoustic Music Studies Network 2019 conference, Mexico City, Wednesday June 12th 2019.

(2019) ‘Questioning the 'Experimental': Electroacoustic Improvisation as 'Experimental' case study’, in Proceedings of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference, Florence (Italy), June 20-23, 2018.

(2017) ‘In Search of the Nordic Electroacoustic’, Sounding the North Conference, October 27th 2017, University of Aberdeen, UK.

(2016) ‘Electroacousic Mythmaking: National Grand Narratives in Electroacoustic Music’, Alternative Histories of Electroacoustic Music conference, April 2016, Science Museum, London.

(2015) ‘Electroacoustic Minimalism & Minimalist Electroacoustics’, Minimalism Unbounded! The Fifth International Conference on Minimalist Music, University of Turku, Finland.

(2015) ‘Rhythm in Acousmatic Music’, EMS2015: The Art of Electroacoustic Music, University of Sheffield, UK.

(2015) ‘Interdisciplinary Encounters: Transition, mediation, and dissolution in multidisciplinary improvisation’, The Reflective Conservatoire: 4th International Conference, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, UK.

(2014) ‘New and Recent Online Resources for Acousmatic Music’, CIME/ICEM 2014 conference, University of North Texas, USA.

(2014) ‘Interdisciplinary Encounters: Transition, Mediation, and Dissolution in Multidisciplinary Improvisation’, Perspectives on Musical Improvisation II conference, University of Oxford, UK.

(2014) ‘Sonic Narratives: Exploring sound as narrative/studying narrative through sound’, 2nd European Sound Studies Association (ESSA) Conference, Copenhagen.

(2014) ‘Of Nations, Studios, and Other Electroacoustic Myths: Deconstructing the National Grand Narrative(s) of Electroacoustic Music’, Third Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History, Helsinki, Finland.

(2014) ‘Acousmatic Music in the Context of the Recording Arts’, Sonic Signatures Symposium, Aalborg University, Denmark.

(2014) ‘Towards a Narratology of Acousmatic Music’, in Proceedings of the 2014 Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference: Electroacoustic Music Beyond Concert Performance, Berlin, June 2014.

(2013) ‘Electroacoustic Performance Practice in Interdisciplinary Improvisation’, Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society Conference, Seoul, South Korea.

(2013) ‘Sound and Narrative: Acousmatic composition as artistic research’, 1st International Conference of the European Sound Studies Association, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

(2013) ‘Narrative Worlds in Acousmatic Music’, Imagined Worlds: Worldmaking in Arts and Literature conference, University of Helsinki, Finland.

(2013) ‘Research Group in Interdisciplinary Improvisation: Performance/Presentation’, LAPSody 2013, Theatre Academy/University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland.

(2013) ‘Multimodality in Audiovisual Art’, The Medium is the Message: Sound - Image - Gesture conference, Plaisir, France.

(2013) ‘Space and Place in Acousmatic Music’, Cultural Memory of Sound & Space - 17th Finnish Music Researchers' Symposium, University of Turku, Finland.

(2013) ‘Research Group in Interdisciplinary Improvisation: Performance/Presentation’, CARPA 3: Third Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts, Theatre Academy/University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland.

(2013) ‘Approaches to Narrative in Acousmatic Music’, From Tape to Typedef: Compositional Methods in Electroacoustic Music conference, University of Sheffield, UK.

(2013) ‘Electroacoustic Performance Practice in Interdisciplinary Improvisation’, in Proceedings of the 2013 Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference: Electroacoustic Music in the Context of Interactive Approaches and Networks, Lisbon, June 2013.

(2013) ‘Panel: Sounding Motion: Time and Space in Cross-Disciplinary Improvisation’, Cultural Memory of Sound & Space - 17th Finnish Music Researchers' Symposium, University of Turku, Finland.

(2012) ‘Projecting the Musical Future: Communication of musical intentions in collective electroacoustic improvisation’, Perspectives on Musical Improvisation conference, University of Oxford, UK.

(2012) ‘Projecting the Musical Future: Communication of musical intentions in collective electroacoustic improvisation’, Sixteenth Nordic Musicological Congress, Stockholm University, Sweden.

(2012) ‘Sound, Music and Motion: Sound Art and Music in Cross-Disciplinary Improvisation’, Third International Symposium on Music/Sonic Art: Practices and Theories, Karlsruhe Institut für Musikwissenschaä und Musikinformatik, Karlsruhe, Germany.

(2012) ‘Perspectives on Improvisation: A report from the Improv Research Group of the CMT’, International Music Club 2012 Improvisation Conference, Petrozavodsk State Conservatory, Russia.

(2012) ‘Hidden Control Lines’, OrCiM International Seminar 2012: Composition–Experiment–Tradition, Orpheus Research Centre in Music, Ghent, Belgium.

(2012) Keynote Presentation: ‘Sound and Motion: Strategies for cross-disciplinary improvisation between musicians and dancers’. Sound, Sight, Space and Play 2012, Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

(2012) ‘The Future of Electroacoustic Pedagogy’, in Proceedings of the 2012 Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference: Meaning and Meaningfulness in Electroacoustic Music, Stockholm, June 2012.

(2012) ‘An Embodied Approach to Acousmatic Music’, in Proceedings of the 16th Annual Symposium for Music Scholars in Finland, Jyväskylä 21.-23.3.2012.

(2011) ‘The Musical and the Narrative in Acousmatic Music: A composition-based project of artistic research’, ISSSM2011, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

(2011) ‘The Musical and the Narrative in Acousmatic Music’, in Finnish music research 100 years: proceedings of the celebrational symposium, ed. Pääkkölä, Anna-Elena.

 

Associate Editor, Organised Sound