Kristian North (INDI, Concordia University, Canada)The Haptic Sound Field: Spatial aspects of Haptic Aurality in Acoustic and Electroacoustic DiffusionThis article explores the haptic dimension of acoustic fields, considering its influence on the perception and construction of actual and virtual spaces. A ‘haptic aurality’ (introduced in a recent article for Organised Sound (North 2024, Cambridge Press)) is developed, including sometimes contradictory accounts of ‘haptics...

Organizer: Carsten Stabenow ∆This proposal is a data sensing and sonification approach focused on monitoring and comparing water qualities with a modular and lightweight field-kit. A sensor-data-input/CV-output module on Arduino base can monitor basic water quality parameters – pH-value, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Dissolved oxygen (DO), Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP) and temperature. The CV outputs can be patched to a VCLFO/VCO circuit and filter banks to generate an audio and ...

Organizer: Leena Samin Naqvi with Danielle Wilde (Umeå University, Umeå Institute of Design)In this workshop, participants will be tasked with: painting yoghurt on food safe butter paper; pegging it to a line, to dry; addressing an envelope to someone with whom they wish (or imagine) co- creating culture; adding a note, poem or desire, and yoghurt-making instructions that poetically detail the microbial and environmental meeting and making, noting what elements can (seemingly) be con...

Organizer: Rennie Tang ∆ (California State Polytechnic University Pomona, USA) • Eleni-Ira Panourgia ∆ (Gustave Eiffel University, France);• Lisa Sandlos ∆ (Brock University, Canada)• Jackie Martin ∆ (Biodiversity Coordinator, Office of Sustainability, Concordia University, Canada)• Rebecca Tittler ∆ (Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, Concordia University, Canada)• Maya Lach-Aidelbaum ∆ (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Canada)• Li...

Organizer: Jayanthan Sriram ∆ (Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Canada)How do you experience light and sound in accordance to smell? If you think this question is asked backwards, with smell having to follow your sense of sound and light, you are in for a treat. Born out of a collaboration with the ITHQ (Institut de tourisme et d'hôtellerie du Québec) and ExperiSens, Modal Olfactory Atmosphere finds its second iteration as an interactive and collaborative workshop. W...

Organizers: Tim Horvath ∆ with Matthew Kirtkpatrick ∆ (Warren Wilson MFA Program in Writing/Phillips Exeter English Department, Stratham, USA)In this creative writing workshop, the leaders–writers whose recent projects push the boundaries of how language can be used to describe and evoke the non–visual (sound, scent, and texture)--will share writing activities designed to guide participants into fresh linguistic and conceptual zones. After reading from their own work, workshop leaders ...

Organizer: Warsame Isse ∆ (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Canada)Black technopoetics is a term coined by Louis Chude-Sokei that refers to the intersection between creative expression, technology and Blackness according to Louise Chude-Sokei. I am implementing this concept as I utilize guitar pedals and haptic transducers to hear, feel and distort the sonic media that is a part of my Somali intangible cultural heritage. Intangible cultural heritage (here after referred to ...