Workshop – Composing for Vibratory Media

Composing for Vibratory Media Workshop

Explore ways of composing for vibratory media in this artist-led workshop. Participants will have an opportunity to feel different compositional and technical approaches to low-frequency design, including:

– Spatializing vibrations across multiple haptic transducers

– Transforming audio and music to enhance vibration

– Synthesizing haptics using electronic music tools

– Activating resonant materials

⭐️ Please note – this is a practical session exploring compositional materials with haptic hardware. We will have a limited number of stations so participation may be limited or collaborative. Participants will need a laptop to use during the workshop.

Workshop Facilitator Bios

Laurel Lawson is a transdisciplinary artist whose work includes both traditional choreography and novel ways of creating and deploying art through technology and design. Laurel’s work draws from mythology, Appalachian and Southern cultural practices, and the liminal lived experience of queerness and disability.

Working nationally and internationally in art, design, access, and technology, Laurel is a founding artist of disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light. Their artist-engineer collaborative ensemble, The Choreodaemonic Collective, receives core support from the Ford Foundation and a Creative Capital Award. Laurel also consults for a number of regional, national, and international organizations as a strategist and facilitator and is a noted speaker in both arts and technology.

Instagram: @worldsoflaurel

Colin Clark is an artist, researcher, and developer of community-led technologies. Since the 1990s, he has contributed to the growth of inclusive design in Canada and internationally. He is co-founder of Lichen Community Systems, a non-profit worker cooperative dedicated to the practice of community-led design.

As an artist, Colin designs creative access technologies for live performance with the Kinetic Light Dance Company, mediates motion-media-robotic data flows with the Choreodaemonics Collective, improvises electronic music with Bitstance, and develops open source software and hardware frameworks that are used by artists worldwide.

Websites: Colin Clark and Lichen Community Systems