Schedule

Day 1: Thursday, July 2nd
	Foyer de la Salle Claude Champagne
8:00 - 9:00	Registration and breakfast
9:00 - 9:10	Welcome talk
	Salle Claude-Champagne	Salle Serge-Garant (B-484)
9:10 - 10:25	Session 1: Contemporary music analysis and dance 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	Session 2: Artistic reports 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 a sound installation, Thomas Augustin 10:00 -- Lithophonica: Timbral explorations of stones and sticks, James Harley & Gayle Young
10:25 - 10:45	Coffee break and poster session (foyer)
10:45 - 12:00	Session 3: Crossmodality 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 10:35 -- Microsensorium: Timbral Crossmodal Worlds in Orchestral Music and AI Video, Chelsea Komschlies	Session 4: Extended techniques 10:45 -- Classifying String Instrument Preparation Techniques: Analysis, Taxonomies, and Applications in Computer-Aided Orchestration, Maurizio Azzan & Luca Guidarini 11:10 -- Analyzing String Instrument Preparation Techniques in Context: Timbral Space, Syntax and Form, Ingrid Pustijanac & Michele Leggieri 10:35 -- Applying Timbre Analysis in the Performance of Chamber Music with Timpani and Cello, Manuel López Tovar
12:00 - 13:20	Lunch break and poster session
	Re-Examining Germaine Tailleferre Criticism in Light of Orchestral Grouping Effects in her Piano Concerto No. 1 (1924), Emma Davis The Contours of Timbre in Rebecca Saunders's Fury II, Ash Mach Colouring Shapes and Forms: Timbral and Orchestrational Strategies in the Serial Works of Elisabeth Lutyens, Aidan McGartland Hearing the Form, Seeing the Material: Global and Local Feature Correspondences Across Vision and Audition, Asterios Zacharakis MusicVis: Leveraging Cross-Modal Correspondences for Fine-Grained Visual Representations of Music, Kelly Raines Timbre’s Beholders and the Racialization of Sensation in Concert Music Aesthetics, Colin Tucker Toward a Conceptual Framework for AI-Mediated Timbre Transformation: Exploring Transparency and Interaction in Algorithmic Intervention and Interface Design, Steven Lewis Concrete Listening in Latent Space: Reduced Semantic Conditioning of Diffusion Transformers as a Compositional Strategy, David Piazza Prony-Informed Percussion Orchestration: A Case Study in Elements of Adventure, Joseph Chang Timbre discrimination in drum tom-toms: An approach based on audio descriptors and timbre space, Carlos de Castro
	Salle Claude-Champagne	Salle Serge-Garant (B-484)
13:20 - 14:50	Session 5: Panel on cross-cultural timbre studies Negotiating Timbre between East and West: Friction, Reflexivity, and Knowledge-Making in Cross-Cultural Timbral Studies, Yifan Huang (moderator) 13:25 -- Notating Timbre in Jianzipu: A Gesture-Based MEI Encoding Module, Eto Sun, Yifan Huang & Ichiro Fujinaga 13:45 -- 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 14:05 -- Western and Chinese Musical Acoustics in Dialogue: Understanding the Timbre of the Chinese Transverse Flute (dizi) Through Physics, Xinmeng Luan & Gary Scavone 14:25 -- A cross-cultural comparison of the timbre-semantic space of Chinese instrumental sounds, Yifan Huang, Linglan Zhu, & Stephen McAdams	Session 6: Panel on timbre and the politics of artificial creativity Cat In Loop: A Case Study On Timbre, Imagination And AI, Weilu Ge & Nithya Shikarpur 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
14:50 - 15:10	Coffee break
15:10 - 16:30	Session 7: Timbre and sound spatialisation 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	Session 8: Percussion and rhythms 15:10 -- An MDS Timbre Space for Percussive Musical Instruments Generated by Physical Modeling Synthesis, Marcelo Caetano [LT] 15:15 -- Mapping the Concert Snare Drum: A Sound Catalogue Through Improvisation, Tarcísio Braga 15:40 -- Timbre and Rhythmic Parsing: Spectral Centroid and Temporal Envelope Effects on Prominence and Grouping, Joshua Rosner, Stephen McAdams, & Michael Wagner 16:05 -- Percussion Patterns, Rhyming Poetry, and the Expectation of Recurring Timbres: Case Studies from Sri Lanka, Eshantha Peiris
16:30 - 17:00	Break
	Salle Claude-Champagne
17:00 - 18:00	Keynote lecture and CIRMMT distinguished lecture : Sølvi Ystad -- Timbre, evocations and perceptual engineering: past and present contradictions and illusions
18:00 - 19:30	Welcome reception

Day 2: Friday, July 3rd
	Salle Claude-Champagne	Salle Serge-Garant (B-484)
9:00 - 10:15	Session 9: Timbre in instrumental performance 9:00 -- Physical Analysis of Sound Production in the Baroque Traverso: Geometry, Resonance, and Timbre Control, Patricio de la Cuadra 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	Session 10: Hearing/touching synthetic textures 9:00 -- Towards embodied and inclusive crossmodal experiences of timbre and music: User perspectives of a new vibrotactile assistive device, Loonan Chauvette, Alex Bégin, Jérémie Voix, Matthieu J. Guitton, & Andréanne Sharp 9:25 -- Empirical Study of the Semantics of Synthetic "Timbre-Textures", Jason Noble, Francis Bourgoin, Takuto Fukuda, Caroline Traube, & Zachary Wallmark 9:50 -- Gestural Control of Timbre with a Digital Musical Instrument, Gaël Moriceau
10:15 - 10:35	Coffee break
10:35 - 12:00	Session 11 : Sound studies 10:35 -- Listening to Demonstrations: Timbral Perspectives on Urban Crowd Sound, Kamyar Karimi, Alice Jarry & Gabriel Vigliensoni [LT] 10:45 -- Don’t Let Screaming Ruin Your Beauty Sleep, Just Bleach It! A Study of Frequency Shearing for Noise, Marina Lee 11:10 -- Timbre as Exposure: Fragility, Proximity, and the Audibility of the Body, Hee Seng Kye 11:35 -- An Embodied and Crossmodal Approach to Timbre in Unaccompanied Solo Traditional Singing, Kristin Jonzon	Session 12: Philosophy of timbre 10:35 -- The Commitments of Physical Modeling: Timbre, Mediation, and Virtual Instrument Construction, Xyh Tamura [LT] 10:45 -- The violent particularity of timbre as sonic and symbolist ideal in new music, Amy Bauer 11:10 -- "Almost Unbelievably Rich": Autistic Listening and Wandelweiser Music, Nathan Friedman 11:35 -- Toward a Lachenmannian Phenomenology in the Music of Lachenmann, Saunders, and Iannotta, Zachary Bernstein
12:00 - 13:20	Lunch break and poster session
	Towards embodied and inclusive crossmodal experiences of timbre and music: User perspectives of a new vibrotactile assistive device, Alex Bégin Reactive Materials and Gesture in Timbral Shaping: Towards an Augmented Sonic Device, Maria Vittoria Agresti Signs of Mediated Gesture: Play and Recognition in Mixed Instrumental Works, Nicholas Ma Measuring Consistency in Explainable Synthetic Timbre Annotators, Peter McCabe Vocal Timbre Similarity for Personalized Singer Matching and Song Recommendation, Jiaxing Yu Learning Investigating "Timbre Tagging" of Pitch Structure in an Implicit Statistical Learning Paradigm, Adam Andrew Garrow Everyday Sounds as Emotional Catalysts: A Research-Creation Study in Contemporary Music, Yifan Huang Grounding Musical Intimacy in Timbre: Exploring a Conceptual Model of Intimate Listening, Yifan Huang Creating a Timbral Monster: The Superclarinet of Martino’s Triple Concerto, Zachary Brennan Timbre as a Pedagogical Tool for Students with Dyslexia in the Music Theory Classroom, Joy Anderson
	Salle Claude-Champagne
13:20 - 14:20	Keynote lecture: Zachary Wallmark : Authentic, idiosyncratic, or enchanted? Three ideologies of timbre in popular music
14:20 - 14:40	Coffee break
	Salle Claude-Champagne	Salle Serge-Garant (B-484)
14:40 - 16:30	Session 13: Synthetic timbre in popular music 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 10 min. break 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	Session 14: Communicating about timbre 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 10 min. break 15:40 -- The Classroom Case for Timbre, Holly Bergeron-Dumaine 16:05 -- Toward a cross-disciplinary framework for strategic communication about timbre, Lindsey Reymore
16:30 - 16:45	Break
16:45 - 18:00	Session 15: Emotions and intimacy 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	Session 16: Sounds of nature 16:45 -- Timbre as a Combination of Its Source and Contents: A Phenomenological Metaphor-Based Framework for Analysing Timbre in Musical Works, Matt Collins 17:10 -- Timbre Across Species: Appropriating Bird Vocalizations in Contemporary Music, Matthieu Galliker 17:35 -- Ethereality in Jennifer Higdon's Early Works, Laura Dallman

Day 3: Saturday, July 4th
	Salle Jean-Papineau-Couture (B-421)	Salle Serge-Garant (B-484)
9:00 - 10:15	Session 17: Ethnomusicological perspectives 9:00 -- On the Global Study of Timbre, Jason Winikoff [LT] 9:08 -- Timbral Transformations in Tunisian Folk Music: A Case Study of the Small-sized 'Darbuka' Drum, Ali Chamseddine [LT] 9:16 -- Timbre as Musical Language in the Dùndún Ensemble: Perception, Performance, and Meaning in Yoruba Culture and Auditory Frameworks, Sunday Olufemi Akande [LT] 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	Session 18: Orchestrating and analyzing the musical scene 9:00 -- Satellites: Orbiting Composer and Performer Insights on Timbre in a Work for Piano and Electronics, Hubert Ho & Matthew Schumaker 9:25 -- Orchestrating Timbre with Interaction Scenarios, Frédéric Roverselli 9:50 -- Instrument identification in a virtual orchestral scene, Kai Siedenburg
10:15 - 10:35	Coffee break
10:35 - 12:00	Session 19: Perception, imagery and memory 10:35 -- Can Instrumentation Predict Pitch-Class Profiles?, Noah Kahrs [LT] 10:45 -- Hearing The Unconventional: A Study of Perceptual Fusion of Extended Techniques in Contemporary Classical Music, Jia Yi Lee & Jenine Brown 11:10 -- Timbral imagery for instrumental dyads, Linglan Zhu 11:35 -- Differential Short-Term Memory for Spectral and Temporal Dimensions of Timbre, Stephen McAdams, Behrad Madahi & Bryana-Alexa Liberta	Session 20: Timbre and interaction in contemporary music 10:35 -- Cross-Cultural and Cross-Medium Timbre in Contemporary Music, Bike Oner [LT] 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 -- Unplugged Electronics and Expansive Orchestration for a New Guitar Concerto, Marc Garcia-Vitoria 11:35 -- Bell Timbres as Compositional Framework: Acoustic, Algorithmic, and Formalized Approaches, Dongryul Lee
12:00 - 13:15	Lunch break and poster session
	Evaluation of Audio and Language Foundation Models on Timbre Cognition Tasks, Georgios Velissaridis Transitivity and Timbre Similarity Judgment, Molly Jones Musical Metaphors: Timbre, Semantics, and Meaning, Susanne Sevcik Timbre, Perception, and Musical Form in Tan Dun’s Water Concerto (1998), Anqi Wang Thinking Timbre Through Light: Chiaroscuro Metaphors in Saariaho’s Solo Cello Music, Rafael Felicio Silva Godoi From Numbers to Practice: The Perceptual Reality of Neutral Intervals in Persian Tuning, Farzad Milani Is Everything Romantic?: Sonic Expressions of Gender in Hyperpop Vocal Production, Lilly Korkontzelos Invariant Instrumentation and the Effects of Shifted Vocal Performance on Screamed Deathcore Songs, Zachary Simonds
	Salle Jean-Papineau-Couture (B-421)	Salle Serge-Garant (B-484)
13:15 - 14:30	Session 21: Timbre, gesture and embodiment 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 -- Timbral Habitus: Sound, Listening, and Embodiment, Jose R Torres	Session 22: Vocality 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 14:05 -- Two Rappers: Recreating vocal patterns through percussion in George Lewis' North Star Boogaloo, Malcolm Taylor
14:30 - 14:50	Coffee break
14:50 - 16:50	Session 23: Timbre in popular music 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 10 min. break 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	Session 24: Timbre in contemporary music 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 10 min. break 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
16:50 - 17:20	Break
	Salle Claude-Champagne
17:20 - 19:00	Concert