Description

Following Nadine Schütz’s (ETH Zürich and IRCAM) distinguished lecture on December 1st 2025, CIRMMT is pleased to announce a two-day workshop, with guest researcher Nicolas Misdariis (IRCAM). This workshop aims to bring together artists and researchers interested in soundscape design and situated sound art. We will discuss the various ways sound art can affect the experience of urban spaces as well as design tools and methods as well as artistic practices around the creation of site-specific sound installations and performances.

Registration

Please fill this MS form to register to attend this workshop. You can attend either or both days. Lunch will not be provided for registrations after November 28th.

Schedule

Click here to download the schedule as a PDF. 

Day 1 – Wednesday 12/03/25: Seminar on Sonic Interventions in Public Space

Multimedia Room MMR (-2 floor), CIRMMT, 527 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, H3A 1E3

Morning session

09:30-09:45: Opening
09:45-10:00: Welcoming words – Presentation of the MMR
10:00-10:30: Kalun Leung (CIRMMT) – Activating Space: From Concert Hall to Context
10:30-11:00: Nicola di Croce (IUAV) – Containing multitudes, a sound installation attuned to
Place de la Paix
11:00-11:15: Break
11:15-11:45: Jess Conn-Potegal (Open Octave) – Coaxial: Collaboratively Sounding Sculpture and Landscape on Hornby Island, Recontextualized in Immersive Spaces
11:45-12:15: Valérian Fraisse (McGill) – From sound art to soundscape: a research-creation approach for designing and evaluating public space sound installations
12:15–13:30: Lunch in room A832 (8 floor)

Afternoon session

13:30-14:00: Nicolas Misdariis (IRCAM) – Boundary Objects as a frame for facilitating cooperation between stakeholders in a collaborative research-creation approach
14:00-14:30: Simon Chioini (UdeM) – Sound + Place: Approaches to Situated Sonic Fieldwork Break
14:30-14:45: Break
14:45-15:15: Weilu Ge (Harvard) – Performing Listening with Space
15:15-15:45: Simone D’Ambrosio (Audiotopie) – Entendre le lieu
15:45-16:15: Soundscape Simulation Demos

Day 2 – Thursday 12/04/25: Co-creation workshop with invited artists

Multimedia Room MMR (-2 floor), CIRMMT, 527 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, H3A 1E3

Afternoon session

14:00-14:15: Contextualization and listening of the pre-existing sound environment
14:15-14:45: Presentation and listening of the outcomes of the co-creation session
14:45-15:00: Break
15:00-16:30: Roundtable with the invited artists
16:30-16:45: Wrap-up