Composer and guitarist from Helsinki, Finland.
A digital approach to live composition
Since September 2020 I’ve been working on and off towards a doctorate at the MuTri Doctoral School at Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, with the aim of completing the project in 2026.
My doctoral project investigates the domain between improvisation and composition from different perspectives. The aim of the research—currently titled A digital approach to live composition—is to use artistic activity to explore and extend the use of compositional elements in improvised music and the use of improvisation in compositions. In both cases, this goal is being approached with a custom web application that I have been developing.
Onttonen, Esa. 2023. Collaborative Live Composition with Frankie. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation - TENOR BOSTON 2023. [PDF at Taju, with the best quality images; alternatives with low quality images: PDF at Zenodo, PDF at TENOR website.]