The discourse around touch and the tactile has been growing in recent years. Within music, this conversation is mainly dominated by the integration of haptics with sound technology and the way in which music ‘touches’ us emotionally. This symposium aims to
explore the deeply embodied experience that is hearing and listening and add to this ever-growing field of practice and research. Composers and sound artists, alongside a ceramicist, a choreographer, a landscape architect, and a surgeon, will consider this
tactile experience from an open perspective, including the political, social, and aesthetic. Short provocations by fourteen speakers and an evening concert on the first day will form the basis for a round table discussion and an afternoon concert on the second
day.
Speakers and performers: Roger Kneebone (keynote), James Weeks, Amber Priestley, Will Cole, Jo Gibbons, Petur Jonasson, Amie Ray, Jan Hendrickse, Thor Magnussen, Julian Stair, Teoma Naccarato, Miguel Mera, Adam Harper, Aaron Einbond, Tullis Rennie, and Claudia
Molitor.