Umut Eldem’s research focuses on interdisciplinary art, electronic music, and generative composition. He holds a PhD in artistic research from the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, where he explored synesthesia as a creative strategy in audiovisual composition. As coordinator of the CREATIE research group at the same institution, he supervises and participates in artistic research projects on music and technology.
Presentations
- AI Musicking: Innovative Approaches to Creative Instrumental Practices through Machine Learning — 25th symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Musical Instruments, 2025
- Musicking with AI: Pedagogical and Creative Perspectives — Creative Digital Dynamics, 2024
- Hearing Glass: Synaesthetic and Cross-Modal Correspondences in the Musical Practice — UK Synaesthesia Association Conference, 2024
- Multimodal and Psuedo-Synaesthetic Systems in Visual Music Composition: Applying Color Harmony to the Musical Process — VII International Congress “Synaesthesia: Science and Art”
- Shallow Steps: Spatial Cognitive Sonification of Generative Visuals — IRCAM Forum, 2023
- Screen Dive Live Discourse — ZER0|1NE II Festival, 2021
- Navigating Cross-modal Spaces in Visual Music — UPDag #3, 2021
- Techniques and Aesthetics in Cross-modal Audiovisual Translation — CREATIE Sessions, 2021
- “Live Synaesthetic Visualisation”? Considerations in Artistically Visualised Sound — Expanded Animation – Synaesthetic Syntax, 2020
- The Sound/Colour Relationship in Artistic Practice: Visualising Synaesthetic Principles — European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM) Conference, 2019
- Consolidating the Artistic and the Scientific — Methods in Artistic Research, 2019
- Beyond the Pitch – Applying Synaesthetic Principles to the Artistic Practice — IASAS Moscow Synaesthesia Conference, 2019
- Between the Senses: Sound, Colour, and Synaesthesia — Newline, 2019
- What Our Brains Reveal About Our Connection Between Sound and Colour — RE:SOUND – Media Art History Conference, 2019
Writings
- Multimodal and Psuedo-Synaesthetic Systems in Visual Music Composition: Applying Color Harmony to the Musical Process — VII International Congress “Synaesthesia: Science and Art” Proceedings
- Brief Conversation of the Infinite Maze — Interview by Screen Dive
- Junction Between the Senses — Published in FORUM+
- Towards a “Live Synaesthetic Visualisation”? Considerations in Artistically Visualised Sound — Published in Music and Synesthesia
- Interview with an Artist – Colors & Music — Interview by Nina Petrov