Music as Ecology of Times: Personal Perspectives on the Relevance of Time as a Creative Medium in Music

Abstract This text presents an artistic research perspective that understands music as an ecology of times rather than a linear or purely formal structure. Drawing on the author’s compositional and performative practice, it explores how multiple temporalities—prehistoric, futuristic, historical, biographical, and micro-perceptual—interact within musical creation. Central to this approach is an ecological mindset that privileges relationality, feedback, and openness to non-human agencies over control, optimization, and fixed outcomes. Through examples from solo instrumental performance, live electronics, installations, DJ practice, and long-term project development, the essay examines how real-time performance, intermediate creative processes, and culturally embedded imaginaries co-constitute musical meaning. Influenced by ecology, anthropology, improvisation, trance studies, and sound system culture, the work frames music-making as a practice of rewilding perception—an embodied engagement with repetition, difference, and resonance. The text argues for an ecological art practice capable of cultivating expanded temporal awareness and responding poetically to contemporary social and environmental crises.