12:00 Beats, Flesh, and Grain: Sonic Tactility and Affect in Electronic Dance Music

Luis-Manuel Garcia [NL], University of Groningen / Max Planck Institut for Educational Research

This presentation sets out to explore the tactilization of sound in electronic music, which offers an important sensory-affective bridge between touch, sonic experience, and an expansive sense of connection in dancing crowds. Electronic music invokes tactility through a range of modalities, of which three will be the focus of this presentation: percussive “beats,” fleshy timbre, and sonic grain—all of which resonate with heightened haptic experience. The notion of sonic grain will be developed through a close engagement with the work of musique concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer.

12:45 Break

13:00 INGAU: An Educational Experience

Martin Craciun and Diego Vidart [UY], Catholic University Uruguay

The Major in Audiovisual Engineering at the Catholic University Uruguay aims to create an interdisciplinary space to explore and research the technological tools and contents in the field of audiovisual production, sound design and virtual multimedia, and digital settings. Students integrate knowledge from the fields of communication, arts, basic sciences, engineering, and digital technologies, in an adequate surrounding for learning- and practice-based projects. This major stimulates the entrepreneurship and creative spirit of students from engineering.

13:30 Break

14:00 Crack in the City

Daisuke Ishide [JP/DE], Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)

Daisuke Ishida talks about the public intervention project "Crack in the City” which was held at the class “Sound, Art and Technology-poiesis” at UNI.K Studio für Klangkunst und Klangforschung, The Berlin University of the Arts. Crack in the City is a project dedicated to create sound installations/actions reflected upon public space (i.e Berlin's Hermannplatz). The urban everyday life is completely surrounded by various kinsd of sounds, yet, it is not necessary that we are continuously acknowledging, or even hearing them. The project’s aim is to bring an experiential artistic activity to our auditory everyday life, in order to expand our understanding of public space itself, its sound with aesthetic qualities and beyond.