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Currently, Tellinga is connected to the Academy for Creative and Performing Arts, a research institute part of the Humanities Faculty at the University of Leiden - The Netherlands, where he pursues a practice-led PhD under Professor of Auditory Culture and Music Philosophy, Prof. dr. Marcel Cobussen.

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In his thesis (working title 'Speculative Musical Spaces: An Inquiry Into Multimodal Musicality'), he argues for a transpositional, integrative notion of musicality, positing the concept of  'Musicality-as-Object'. It proposes a thinking of musicality in terms of the contemporary (art) object —hypothetically, heterogenously, unreducible to one medium or another, and with the inherent potential to be read and realised in evolving manners through post-conceptual practice. When approached from different (un)medial or (in)disciplinary angles, musicality-as-object invites and requires to be ‘remade’ by practitioners who engage from their partial perspective, distributing properties of the object in an unprecedented way, continuously expanding upon and redefining its terms of operation. As an impulse of contemporary generic practice, musicality-as-object facilitates exchange between knowledges. Drawing in different practical and discursive perspectives, it has the capacity to interface an unfixed phenomenological and conceptual field beyond its common demarcations of sound and stage, offering an alternative sensitivity to time, experience, materials and process within the wider arena of contemporary art.

 

To this end, Tellinga's speculative compositional practice reinterprets music's allography and its unique thickness of time into propositional object-specific iterations of performative installation across an evolving intermediality, aiming to prompt engagement with the fundamental ideas of music composition and the very notion of a musical situation.

 

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