Posters

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Crossmodality and embodiment
Author(s)Title
Asterios Zacharakis & Amit GurHearing the Form, Seeing the Material: Global and Local Feature Correspondences Across Vision and Audition
Kelly Raines & Xin Wei ShaMusicVis: Leveraging Cross-Modal Correspondences for Fine-Grained Visual Representations of Music
Alex Bégin, Loonan Chauvette, Jérémie Voix, Matthieu J. Guitton, & Andréanne SharpTowards embodied and inclusive crossmodal experiences of timbre and music: User perspectives of a new vibrotactile assistive device
Maria Vittoria Agresti, Ernesto Di Maio, & Stefano SilvestriTime-dependent Materials and Gesture in Timbral Shaping: Towards a Material-based Sonic Device
Nicholas MaPlay and Recognition in Mixed Instrumental Works

MIR
Peter McCabe, Alec Krsek, & Patrick J. DonnellyMeasuring Consistency in Explainable Synthetic Timbre Annotators
Jiaxing Yu, Yingping Cao, Ziyi Huang, Yuhang Jin, Shuyu Li, & Kejun ZhangLearning Vocal Timbre Similarity for Personalized Singer Matching and Song Recommendation
Adam Andrew Garrow & Marcus Thomas PearceInvestigating "Timbre Tagging" of Pitch Structure in a Statistical Learning Paradigm

Cognition and semantics
Yorgos Velissaridis, György Fazekas, & Charalampos SaitisEvaluation of Audio and Language Foundation Models on Timbre Cognition Tasks
Molly Jones & Sile O'ModhrainTransitivity and Timbre Similarity Judgment
Susanne SevcikMemory for Musical Meaning Through Timbre Semantics
Jonas Regnier, Yifan Huang, & Stephen McAdamsEveryday Sounds as Emotional Catalysts: A Research-Creation Study in Contemporary Music
Yifan Huang, Martha de Francisco, & Stephen McAdamsGrounding Musical Intimacy in Timbre: Exploring a Conceptual Model of Intimate Listening

Percussion
Joseph Chang & Philippe DepalleProny-Informed Percussion Orchestration: A Case Study in Elements of Adventure
Carlos de Castro & Marcelo Gomes de QueirozTimbre discrimination in drum tom-toms: An approach based on audio descriptors and timbre space

Orchestration analysis
Anqi WangTimbre, Perception, and Musical Form in Tan Dun's Water Concerto (1998)
Ash MachThe Contours of Timbre in Rebecca Saunders's Fury II
Rafael Felicio Silva Godoi & Igor Leão MaiaThinking 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

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