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Staff Profile

Dr Jorge Boehringer

Research Associate: Sonic Intangibles(UKRI)

Background

Jorge Boehringer is a composer, performer, and installation artist. His work explores texture and time, creating listening experiences from natural forms, processes, and patterns. Boehringer regularly performs and exhibits spatial audio environments and scores music for a variety of performance groups. Solo performances under his own name or the title ‘Core of the Coalman’ develop iterations of his practice of ‘self as solo performer’ in which he and his instruments (viola, keyboards, objects, electronics) intersect in a variety of sonic circumstances.

 

Boehringer is based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK where he works as an artist and interdisciplinary researcher, specialising in spatial audio, data sonification, and phenomenology. He is presently research associate at Newcastle University, UK, within Sonic Intangibles, a UKRI-funded research initiative investigating interdisciplinary working methodologies for rendering intangible data accessible through sound. Previously, Boehringer was a research associate in Sonification Design and Aesthetics for Project Radical: a New Interdisciplinary Space for Sonification, a Leverhulme-funded research effort. He has also served as a Research Fellow in Fine Art at Northumbria University, an Associate Lecturer in Music at Newcastle University, and a Research Fellow for Spaeslab in Berlin. He studied composition at the Centre for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, and Alvin Curran, attended a master class with Paul DeMarinis, and has worked with Maryanne Amacher, Gordon Mumma, and Allan Kaprow. Boehringer received a PhD from the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) at the University of Huddersfield, working with Bryn Harrison and Peter Ablinger.




Further details and recorded sound works can be found at the links to follow:

www.jorgeboehringer.com

https://multiplesystemsofevents.wordpress.com

https://coreofthecoalman.bandcamp.com/

https://ongrowthandform.bandcamp.com/releases

Research

Boehringer is based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK where he works as an artist and interdisciplinary researcher, specialising in spatial audio, data sonification, and phenomenology. He is presently research associate at Newcastle University, UK, within Sonic Intangibles, a UKRI-funded research initiative investigating interdisciplinary working methodologies for rendering intangible data accessible through sound. Previously, Boehringer was a research associate in Sonification Design and Aesthetics for Project Radical: a New Interdisciplinary Space for Sonification, a Leverhulme-funded research effort. He has also served as a Research Fellow in Fine Art at Northumbria University, an Associate Lecturer in Music at Newcastle University, and a Research Fellow for Spaeslab in Berlin. He studied composition at the Centre for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College with Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, and Alvin Curran, attended a master class with Paul DeMarinis, and has worked with Maryanne Amacher, Gordon Mumma, and Allan Kaprow. Boehringer received a PhD from the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) at the University of Huddersfield, working with Bryn Harrison and Peter Ablinger.


Research outputs include publications in leading artistic practice journals and conference presentations within a variety of interdisciplinary contexts. Key areas of research engagement include aesthetics, music composition, sound art, data sonification, spatial audio, electronic music, installation art, art history and criticism, critical theory, phenomenology, existentialism, archaeology, rock art, phyllotaxis, and morphology.

Teaching

While his work at the Newcastle University presently consists of research, Boehringer is keen to work with students again soon. He views his work as an educator as fundamental to his own curiosity-driven artistic practice and considers the development and delivery of learning to play a grounding role within his research work.


Boehringer has served as a module leader for a Studio Production BA course in Prague, Czech Republic. He has worked extensively in the liminal zone of interdisciplinary education between contemporary visual arts, musical, and interactive arts practices. In this capacity he has taught Composition, Live Electronic Music, Sound Spatialization, Audio-Visual Composition, Sound Production, Interaction and Interface Design, Idea Generation, Art History, Experimental and Interactive Media courses, English, and even a class in Adobe Photoshop. 


Recently he taught in both the School of Music, Humanities, and Media as well as that of Computing and Engineering at the University of Huddersfield. At Huddersfield he taught on Computer Composition, Desktop Music Production, Composition Practice, Recording, and Sound Spatialization modules. He also served as supervisor for many undergraduate student Final Year Projects.


Boehringer's teaching philosophy concerns the development of inclusive strategies for curiosity-led learning in which learners themselves participate as much as possible in the development of the learning methodologies employed. Boehringer's favourite teaching environment is one in which students can share in lecture-delivery, and workshops and atelier presentations, as well as public events, can create practical platforms for experimentation with and discussion about techniques and concepts studied.

Publications