Composing Time and Space: Transdisciplinary Approaches
This course brings together artists who are interested in how creative work is shaped across disciplines, and how time, space, and process influence artistic decisions. It offers an intensive environment for working, thinking, and testing ideas collectively, including each participant’s own practice.
The course combines a seminar-based part with a physical, practice-oriented workshop, led by composer Thanasis Deligiannis.
In the seminar, we examine what a creative process can be and how it is actively designed. Participants are invited to articulate questions, share challenges, and exchange working methods. Together, we look closely at how choices around time, space, collaboration, roles, and creative tools affect the direction and form of artistic work.
The physical workshop takes place through working actively in space and time. Participants are directly involved in listening, coordination, and movement exercises, and are introduced to tools drawn from theatre, dance, and music composition. These shared practices help develop a common working language and open ways of thinking beyond one’s main discipline. Participants are welcome to bring draft ideas, fragments, or ongoing material, which can be explored and worked with during the workshop.
The course is open to composers, sound artists, creative instrumentalists, and artists working with light, video, and body movement. Rather than focusing on individual repertoire or finished compositions, the course invites participants to cross disciplines and rethink their artistic practice, while exploring familiar approaches in unfamiliar contexts.
At the end of the course, participants will share the outcomes of their work in a performative presentation as part of the Time of Music Festival. This presentation may take different forms, including situations, fragments, processes, or collective configurations that have emerged during the course.
The course language is English.
Thanasis Deligiannis
Thanasis Deligiannis is a Greece-born artist, director, and composer based in Amsterdam, whose work combines sound, video, space, and technology. He creates immersive performances and installations where improvisation and collaboration play a central role. Deligiannis is the artistic director of I/O, a company focusing on creating crossover performances and installations, and he also teaches at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Read more: https://thanasisdeligiannis.com/
Application Guidelines
- Application deadline: 22nd March 2026, midnight EET.
- Applicants must have been born after 1st July 1986
Course Fee: 360 €, includes entrance to concerts at the festival
Accommodation (shared double rooms, shared kitchen): 320 € for accommodation in Viitasaari 29th June – 6th July 2026.
How to Apply
Submit the registration form by 22nd March!
Attach the following documents to the application (in English):
- CV covering studies, courses, and previous artistic work relevant for the application
- Letter of motivation: opening up your practice in a creative process, and in what way do you imagine this workshop expanding or deepening it
Attachments can be submitted in a pdf-format or as links.
Questions and further information:
Artistic Director Johan Tallgren, johan.tallgren@musiikinaika.org, +358 40 742 6345
