This workshop is organized in collaboration with the 4th International Conference on Timbre taking place from July 2-4, 2026 at Pavillon de la faculté de musique, Université de Montréal, 200 avenue Vincent-d'Indy.

If you are interested in attending please email timbreconference[AT]gmail[DOT]com. Space is limited.

Description

This workshop offers a hands-on introduction to Mosaïque (https://mosaique.cargo.site/), a software instrument for music creation based on the exploration of sound corpora. Through practical examples, participants will learn how to import, analyze, and organize sounds within a navigable timbral space, and how to activate them musically through gesture, listening, and experimentation.

The workshop will focus on the system’s creative affordances: the possibility of navigating a corpus as a sonic territory, revealing unexpected relationships between sounds, turning audio analysis into a tool for interpretation, and composing through exploratory gestures rather than fixed sequences. Mosaïque will be presented as an environment for discovery, a performance instrument, and a pedagogical tool for rethinking the relationship between listening, gesture, and sonic organization.

No prior programming experience is required. The workshop is intended for musicians, composers, sound artists, and researchers interested in creative practices involving audio analysis and artificial intelligence. A computer with MacOS or Windows is necessary to take part actively in the workshop.

The workshop is led by Prof. Dominic Thibault, Université de Montréal.