Schedule

9:10 -- Enacting Violence through Choreography-Orchestration Relationships in Stravinsky's Sacrificial Dance, Rebecca Moranis
9:35 -- Orchestration and Transformation Procedures in George Benjamin's Dance Figures, Igor Maia & Robert Hasegawa
10:00 -- Analysis of Orchestration Style: A Case Study of Two Works by Germaine Tailleferre, Jade Roth

9:10 -- It May Not Be Noise: Composing Mental Timbre Through Redistribution and Contextual Interference, Rafael Maia & José Alberto Gomes
9:35 -- Phantom Polyphony: Modeling Tinnitus and the Variability of Its Timbre in the Context of an Art Installation, Thomas Augustin
10:00 -- Don’t Let Screaming Ruin Your Beauty Sleep, Just Bleach It! A Study of Frequency Shearing for Noise, Marina Lee

10:45 -- Classifying String Instrument Preparation Techniques: Analysis, Taxonomies, and Applications in Computer-Aided Orchestration, Maurizio Azzan & Luca Guidarini [V]
10:55 -- Analyzing String Instrument Preparation Techniques in Context: Timbral Space, Syntax and Form, Ingrid Pustijanac & Michele Leggieri
11:20 -- Hearing The Unconventional: A Study of Perceptual Fusion of Extended Techniques in Contemporary Classical Music, Jia Yi Lee & Jenine Brown [V]
11:30 -- Applying Timbre Analysis in the Performance of Chamber Music with Timpani and Cello, Manuel López Tovar

10:45 -- How Transmodal Performative Settings Shape Timbral Perception, Ajtony Csaba
11:10 -- Crossmodal Semantic Priming between Timbre and Olfaction: Does Timbre Activate Semantic Associations? Asterios Zacharakis
11:35 -- Microsensorium: Timbral Crossmodal Worlds in Orchestral Music and AI Video, Chelsea Komschlies

1. The Contours of Timbre in Rebecca Saunders's Fury II, Ash Mach
2. Colouring Shapes and Forms: Timbral and Orchestrational Strategies in the Serial Works of Elisabeth Lutyens, Aidan McGartland
3. Hearing the Form, Seeing the Material: Global and Local Feature Correspondences Across Vision and Audition, Asterios Zacharakis & Amit Gur
4. MusicVis: Leveraging Cross-Modal Correspondences for Fine-Grained Visual Representations of Music, Kelly Raines & Xin Wei Sha
5. Toward a Conceptual Framework for AI-Driven Timbre Transformation: Exploring Ethics, Occlusion, Transparency, and Interaction in Algorithmic Design, Steven Lewis
6. Concrete Listening in Latent Space: Reduced Semantic Conditioning of Diffusion Transformers as a Compositional Strategy, David Piazza
7. Prony-Informed Percussion Orchestration: A Case Study in Elements of Adventure, Joseph Chang & Philippe Depalle
8. Timbre Discrimination in Drum Tom-Toms: An Approach Based on Audio Descriptors and Timbre Space, Carlos de Castro & Marcelo Gomes de Queiroz

13:20 -- Introduction
13:25 -- A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Timbre-Semantic Space of Chinese Instrumental Sounds, Yifan Huang, Lena Heng, Zijin Li & Stephen McAdams
13:40 -- Notating Timbre in Jianzipu: A Gesture-Based MEI Encoding Module, Eto Sun, Yifan Huang & Ichiro Fujinaga
13:55 -- Western and Chinese Musical Acoustics in Dialogue: Understanding the Timbre of the Chinese Transverse Flute (dizi) Through Physics, Xinmeng Luan & Gary Scavone
14:10 -- Hearing Orchestration with the TOGE: A Perception-Oriented Case Study of Lei Liang’s Tremors of a Memory Chord, Linglan Zhu, Yifan Huang, Florian Iochem, Chen Fan, Lena Heng, & Stephen McAdams
14:25 -- Panel discussion

13:20 -- Introduction
13:25 -- Cat In Loop: A Case Study On Timbre, Imagination And AI, Weilu Ge & Nithya Shikarpur
13:50 -- Timbre at the Interface: Negotiating Audio Representations in the Age of Artificial Creativity, panel led by Charalampos Saitis with Kai Siedenburg, Landon Morrison, Dominic Thibault, Hee Seng Kye, Weilu Ge, Nithya Shikarpur, Steven Lewis

15:10 -- Composing Timbre in Space: Spatialisation as a Timbral Parameter in Higher-Order Ambisonics, James Bagshaw
15:35 -- Resonance and Depth: Composing Timbral Identity and Spatial Form in an Artist-in-the-Loop Co-Creative Multi-Agent Percussive Performance, Keon Ju Maverick Lee
16:00 -- Timbre spatialisation: The medium is space, Robert Normandeau

15:10 -- Timbre and Rhythmic Parsing: Spectral Centroid and Temporal Envelope Effects on Prominence and Grouping, Joshua Rosner, Stephen McAdams, & Michael Wagner
15:35 -- An Multidimensional Scaling Timbre Space for Percussive Musical Instruments Generated by Physical Modeling Synthesis, Marcelo Caetano & Josh Mitchell [V]
15:40 -- Mapping the Concert Snare Drum: A Sound Catalogue Through Improvisation, Tarcísio Braga
16:05 -- Percussion Patterns, Rhyming Poetry, and the Expectation of Recurring Timbres: Case Studies from Sri Lanka, Eshantha Peiris

9:00 -- The Violent Particularity of Timbre as Sonic and Symbolist Ideal in New Music, Amy Bauer
9:25 -- "Almost Unbelievably Rich": Autistic Listening and Wandelweiser Music, Nathan Friedman
9:50 -- Timbre’s Beholders and the Racialization of Sensation in Concert Music Aesthetics, Colin Tucker

9:00 -- Physical Analysis of Sound Production in the Baroque Traverso: Geometry, Resonance, and Timbre Control, Patricio de la Cuadra, Benoît Fabre & Augustin Ernoult
9:25 -- Individual Differences in Bow-Related Timbre Across 23 Recordings of Bach's Fourth Cello Suite Prelude, Clare Monfredo
9:50 -- Timbre & Text: A Preliminary Study of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's Recordings of Schubert's "Gute Nacht", Tracy Lipke-Perry

10:35 -- Listening to Demonstrations: Timbral Perspectives on Urban Crowd Sound, Kamyar Karimi, Alice Jarry & Gabriel Vigliensoni [LT]
10:45 -- Timbre as Exposure: Fragility, Proximity, and the Audibility of the Body, Hee Seng Kye
11:11 -- Toward a Lachenmannian Phenomenology in the Music of Lachenmann, Saunders, and Iannotta, Zachary Bernstein
11:35 -- Timbre as a Combination of Its Source and Contents: A Phenomenological Metaphor-Based Framework for Analysing Timbre in Musical Works, Matt Collins

10:35 -- Timbre beyond hearing: auditory and vibrotactile interactions in the perception of timbre-related acoustic features, Loonan Chauvette, Anne Sophie Grenier, Philippe Albouy, Emily Coffey, Robert Zatorre & Andréanne Sharp
11:00 -- Empirical Study of the Semantics of Synthetic "Timbre-Textures", Jason Noble, Francis Bourgoin, Takuto Fukuda, Caroline Traube, & Zachary Wallmark
11:25 -- Gestural Control of Timbre with a Digital Musical Instrument, Gaël Moriceau

1. Towards Embodied and Inclusive Crossmodal Experiences of Timbre and Music: User Perspectives of a New Vibrotactile Assistive Device, Alex Bégin, Loonan Chauvette, Jérémie Voix, Matthieu J. Guitton, & Andréanne Sharp
2. Play and Recognition in Mixed Instrumental Works, Nicholas Ma
3. Measuring Consistency in Explainable Synthetic Timbre Annotators, Peter McCabe, Alec Krsek & Patrick Donnelly
4. Learning Vocal Timbre Similarity for Personalized Singer Matching and Song Recommendation, Jiaxing Yu, Yingping Cao, Ziyi Huang, Yuhang Jin, Shuyu Li1, & Kejun Zhang
5. Investigating "Timbre Tagging" of Pitch Structure in a Statistical Learning Paradigm, Adam Andrew Garrow & Marcus Thomas Pearce
6. Everyday Sounds as Emotional Catalysts: A Research-Creation Study in Contemporary Music, Jonas Regnier, Yifan Huang, & Stephen McAdams
7. Grounding Musical Intimacy in Timbre: Exploring a Conceptual Model of Intimate Listening, Yifan Huang, Martha de Francisco, & Stephen McAdams
8. Creating a Timbral Monster: The Superclarinet of Martino’s Triple Concerto, Zac Brennan
9. Timbre as a Pedagogical Tool for Students with Dyslexia in the Music Theory Classroom, Joy Anderson

14:40 -- The Transmedial Ecology of Robot Timbres: Sonic Metaphors and the Evolution of Dubstep Music, Mark Higgins
15:05 -- Deviant Timbre: Sounding Beyond the Human in Pharmakon's Maggot Mass (2024), Bailey Hilgren

15:40 -- The Timbre Is the Instrument: The Imagined DX7 and 1980s Nostalgia, Megan Lavengood
16:05 -- Synthetic Timbres, Cinematic Worlds: Queen's Flash Gordon Soundtrack as a Paradigm for Sound Synthesis and Processing, Nicola Bizzo

14:40 -- A Multi-Space Hierarchical Timbre Model: Perceptually Grounded Prediction of Timbral Similarity, Siavosh Banihashemi
15:05 -- From Terms to Concepts: Towards an Epistemology of North-American Timbre Theory and Analysis of the Mid-1970s, Nathalie Hérold

15:40 -- The Classroom Case for Timbre, Holly Bergeron-Dumaine
16:05 -- Toward a Cross-Disciplinary Framework for Strategic Communication About Timbre, Lindsey Reymore

16:45 -- Emotions in Song and Speech: Acoustic Features Underlying the Multidimensional Space of Perceived Emotions, Lena Heng & Annabel Cohen
17:10 -- Timbre as a Compositional and Relational Tool in an Immersive Contemporary Music Performance for Infants (0–2 years), Anne Chabot-Bucchi & Joshua Bucchi
17:35 -- The Intimate Timbres of the Kantele: Materiality, Touch and Cultural Memory, Arja Kastinen

16:45 -- Lithophonica: Timbral Explorations of Stones and Sticks, James Harley & Gayle Young
17:10 -- Timbre Across Species: Appropriating Bird Vocalizations in Contemporary Music, Matthieu Galliker
17:35 -- Ethereality in Jennifer Higdon's Early Works, Laura Dallman

9:00 -- The Commitments of Physical Modeling: Timbre, Mediation, and Virtual Instrument Construction, Xyh Tamura [V]
9:05 -- On the Global Study of Timbre, Jason Winikoff [V]
9:10 -- Timbral Transformations in Tunisian Folk Music: A Case Study of the Small-sized 'Darbuka' Drum, Ali Chamseddine [V]
9:25 -- Analyse et perception du timbre et des pratiques de l'orchestration en Méditerranée, Mondher Ayari
9:50 -- Timbral Signatures in Cuban Dance Bands from Songo to Timba: Hybridities, Technologies, and Vocality (1970–1995), Joshua Bucchi

9:00 -- Satellites: Orbiting Composer and Performer Insights on Timbre in a Work for Piano and Electronics, Hubert Ho & Matthew Schumaker
9:25 -- Unplugged Electronics and Expansive Orchestration for a New Guitar Concerto, Marc Garcia-Vitoria
9:50 -- Bell Timbres as Compositional Framework: Acoustic, Algorithmic, and Formalized Approaches, Dongryul Lee

10:35 -- Can Instrumentation Predict Pitch-Class Profiles?, Noah Kahrs [LT]
10:45 -- Timbral imagery for instrumental dyads, Linglan Zhu
11:10 -- Differential Short-Term Memory for Spectral and Temporal Dimensions of Timbre, Stephen McAdams, Behrad Madahi & Bryana-Alexa Liberta
11:35 -- Instrument Identification in a Virtual Orchestral Scene, Kai Siedenburg

10:35 -- Cross-Cultural and Cross-Medium Timbre in Contemporary Music, Bike Oner [V]
10:45 -- Composer-performers interaction in pieces featuring specific instruments: a case study of Essai de coexistence sonore for electroacoustic guitar, Karlax, and double bass, Benjamin Lavastre, Mael Oudin & Andrea Gozzi
11:10 -- Orchestrating Timbre with Interaction Scenarios, Frédéric Roverselli
11:35 -- Time-dependent Materials and Gesture in Timbral Shaping: Towards a Material-based Sonic Device, Maria Vittoria Agresti, Ernesto Di Maio, & Stefano Silvestri

1. Evaluation of Audio and Language Foundation Models on Timbre Cognition Tasks, Yorgos Velissaridis, György Fazekas, & Charalampos Saitis
2. Transitivity and Timbre Similarity Judgment, Molly Jones & Sile O’Modhrain
3. Memory for Musical Meaning Through Timbre Semantics, Susanne Sevcik
4. Timbre, Perception, and Musical Form in Tan Dun’s Water Concerto (1998), Anqi Wang
5. Thinking Timbre Through Light: Chiaroscuro Metaphors in Saariaho’s Solo Cello Music, Rafael Felicio Silva Godoi & Igor Leão Maia
6. From Numbers to Practice: The Perceptual Reality of Neutral Intervals in Persian Tuning, Farzad Milani
7. Is Everything Romantic?: Sonic Expressions of Gender in Hyperpop Vocal Production, Lilly Korkontzelos
8. Invariant Instrumentation and the Effects of Shifted Vocal Performance on Screamed Deathcore Songs, Zachary Simonds

13:15 -- From Sensitive Listening to Sound to the Intuition of a Gesture, Jean Geoffroy
13:40 -- “So that the sting first enters the skin, and then hurts”: Embodied Transmission of a Single Note, Gina Fatone
14:05 -- An Embodied and Crossmodal Approach to Timbre in Unaccompanied Solo Traditional Singing, Kristin Jonzon

13:15 -- Emergence of Vocality: Hybridization and Timbral Metamorphoses Between the Pipe Organ and the Voice in the Ora and Vox Humana Projects, Hyun-Hwa Cho & Christophe d'Alessandro
13:40 -- Sounding "round", "bright", "Oooh" or "Aaah": on the Use of Phonemes to Describe the Timbre of String Quartet Instruments, Leïla Barbedette, Claudia Fritz & Caroline Traube
14:05 -- Two Rappers: Recreating Vocal Patterns through Percussion in George Lewis' North Star Boogaloo, Malcolm Taylor

14:50 -- Orchestration of Polyrhythms in Hiatus Kaiyote's Music, Kelsey Lussier [LT]
15:00 -- Analyzing Studio Orchestration through the Hybrid Sound of Michel Legrand, Mael Oudin
15:25 -- Exertion Narratives in Pop Music Production, Will Mason

16:00 -- Beyond Voice Superiority: Acoustic Factors Driving Vocal Salience in Musical Mixtures, Michel Bürgel & Kai Siedenburg
16:25 -- Queering Timbre: The Colourful Sounds of The Cure, Jay Marchand Knight

14:50 -- Timbre as Structure: Case Study of Georg Friedrich Haas's 11.000 Saiten, Isabel Keleti [LT]
15:00 -- Composing for the Liminare Spectral Organ, Louis-Michel Tougas
15:25 -- Timbre in the Music of Luciano Berio: A Workshop on the Sources, Christoph Neidhöfer

16:00 -- “From Inner to Outershadow”: Ensemble Coherence in Recent Works for Oboe and Strings, Anton Vishio
16:25 -- Double-Reed Multiphonics: Their Character, Stability, and Potential for Integration With Heterogeneous Instrumental Ensembles, Roger Reynolds

• Mael Oudin — Essai de coexistence sonore (karlax & double bass)
-- performed by Benjamin Lavastre
• Arja Kastinen - On the shoulders of the Great Bear (Kantele)
• Keon Ju Maverick Lee — Resonance and Depth (acousmatic)
• Gaël Moriceau — Harmonic Turbulences (T-Stick)

Intermission

• Tarcísio Braga — Tambor (snare drum & electronics)
• Matt Schumaker — Satellites (piano, electronics & spatialization)
-- performed by Hubert Ho
• Robert Normandeau — StrinGDberg (acousmatic)