Posters

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Crossmodality and embodiment
Author(s)Title
Asterios ZacharakisHearing the Form, Seeing the Material: Global and Local Feature Correspondences Across Vision and Audition
Kelly RainesMusicVis: Leveraging Cross-Modal Correspondences for Fine-Grained Visual Representations of Music
Alex BéginTowards embodied and inclusive crossmodal experiences of timbre and music: User perspectives of a new vibrotactile assistive device
Maria Vittoria Agresti, Ernesto Di Maio & Stefano SilvestriReactive Materials and Gesture in Timbral Shaping: Towards an Augmented Sonic Device
Nicholas MaSigns of Mediated Gesture: Play and Recognition in Mixed Instrumental Works

MIR
Peter McCabeMeasuring Consistency in Explainable Synthetic Timbre Annotators
Jiaxing YuVocal Timbre Similarity for Personalized Singer Matching and Song Recommendation
Adam Andrew GarrowInvestigating "Timbre Tagging" of Pitch Structure in an Implicit Statistical Learning Paradigm

Cognition and semantics
Georgios VelissaridisEvaluation of Audio and Language Foundation Models on Timbre Cognition Tasks
Molly Jones& Sile O'ModhrainTransitivity and Timbre Similarity Judgment
Susanne SevcikMusical Metaphors: Timbre, Semantics, and Meaning
Yifan HuangEveryday Sounds as Emotional Catalysts: A Research-Creation Study in Contemporary Music
Yifan HuangGrounding Musical Intimacy in Timbre: Exploring a Conceptual Model of Intimate Listening
Colin TuckerTimbre's Beholders and the Racialization of Sensation in Concert Music Aesthetics

Percussion
Joseph ChangProny-Informed Percussion Orchestration: A Case Study in Elements of Adventure
Carlos de CastroTimbre discrimination in drum tom-toms: An approach based on audio descriptors and timbre space

Orchestration analysis
Fredrica RoosScoring the World: Mahler's Orchestration as Imaginary Sound-World
Anqi WangTimbre, Perception, and Musical Form in Tan Dun's Water Concerto (1998)
Ash MachThe Contours of Timbre in Rebecca Saunders's Fury II
Emma DavisRe-Examining Germaine Tailleferre Criticism in Light of Orchestral Grouping Effects in her Piano Concerto No. 1 (1924)
Rafael Felicio Silva GodoiThinking Timbre Through Light: Chiaroscuro Metaphors in Saariaho's Solo Cello Music
Zachary BrennanCreating a Timbral Monster: The Superclarinet of Martino's Triple Concerto
Aidan McGartlandColouring Shapes and Forms: Timbral and Orchestrational Strategies in the Serial Works of Elisabeth Lutyens

Non-western instruments
Farzad MilaniFrom Numbers to Practice: The Perceptual Reality of Neutral Intervals in Persian Tuning
Farshid SamandariSounding the Silk Road: A Comparative Study of Short Necked Lutes

Timbre and AI
David PiazzaConcrete Listening in Latent Space: Reduced Semantic Conditioning of Diffusion Transformers as a Compositional Strategy
Steven LewisToward a Conceptual Framework for AI-Mediated Timbre Transformation: Exploring Transparency and Interaction in Algorithmic Intervention and Interface Design

Pedagogy
Joy AndersonTimbre as a Pedagogical Tool for Students with Dyslexia in the Music Theory Classroom

Timbre in pop music
Lilly KorkontzelosIs Everything Romantic?: Sonic Expressions of Gender in Hyperpop Vocal Production
Zachary SimondsInvariant Instrumentation and the Effects of Shifted Vocal Performance on Screamed Deathcore Songs