My area of interest is music composition and the becoming of musical learning and teaching in a practice where digital hardware and software are co-creators. I am also interested in the research process and how methodologies need to be shaped and reshaped with research material to attempt to illuminate teaching and learning in music as entangled practices. My research is situated theoretically and philosophically within a posthumanist area of interest with a socio-material perspective. Advanced digital tools for music creation are becoming increasingly accessible to many, both in terms of cost and in the human-machine interface. Interfaces and the design of digital software are also more diverse today than just a few years ago, not least due to the possibilities created by AI technology. This implies, in extension, that what and how we learn about/in/through music creation in schools is constantly changing. Therefore, it becomes important to understand not only what we learn but also how we learn in an ever-changing socio-material practice.

Publications

Asplund, J. (2022) Cyborg learners: Becoming-with in the ecology of digital music composition. 

Finnish Journal of Music Education, 25

(1), 8-28.

Asplund, J. (2022) Compositionism and digital music composition education. 

Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education, 6

(3), 96-120. 

https://doi.org/10.23865/jased.v6.3578