SoundLab Symposium
Mark your calendar for Thursday 29 May 2025, 10am – 7pm, and join SoundLab Symposium on Sound, Space and Multi-Senses with guests from Macau’s University of Saint Joseph (USJ). The full-day event will feature demos, papers, workshops, pieces by students and faculty at USJ and School of Creative Media (SCM), including: Gérald Estadieu, Sandra Olga Ng, Alvaro Cassinelli, Damien Charrieras, Ryo Ikeshiro, PerMagnus Lindborg, Valentina Caiola, Parakrant Sarkar. MultiMedia Theatre, CMC, CityUHK (address).
Registration
- For non-CityUHK attendees, register for access QR code (by Wednesday 10am).
- For CityUHK attendees (including SCM faculty & students), register here (by Wednesday 10am).
Schedule
Presentations
Valentina Caiola :: Mini-Workshop “Listening—Shaping—Thinking”
Alvaro Cassinelli & Tobias Klein :: Cymatic Ground
A story of rocks, vibrations, emergence, and harmonies. Artwork (demo).
Damien Charrieras :: MF Doom: intensive trajectories and hidden vernacular
“Prior even to our having a perspective we can call our own, we are always already in a kind of unconscious communion with the world, which is necessarily a world of sense and sensibility, touch and tangibility, seeing and being seen” (Carman, 2008, p.2).
Gérald Estadieu :: OTTOsonics and USJ’s approach to Spatial Audio
Ryo Ikeshiro :: Ambisonics and 360-Video
Creative and critical applications of immersive audio-visuals.
PerMagnus Lindborg :: Multimodal Hong Kong
The sensory cultural heritage creates identity and cohesion in a community. The MMHK project aims to build a database of soundscape and smellscape at culturally significant sites (demo).
PerMagnus Lindborg :: Associations to Music
This is a workshop to explore multimodal associations between music and emotion. In small groups you will listen to a set of film music clips and make associations according to visual colour, tactile touch, valence, and arousal. Each group first works independently, and then we all compare and discuss the results. Scan the QR code below or click here for instructions.
Sandra Olga Ng :: Theatre Project
Parakrant Sarkar :: Neural Audio Effects
Many people today record music at home or on their phones, but these recordings often don’t sound as clean, balanced, or professional as studio-produced tracks. In this talk, I’ll share how we use machine learning to automatically improve the quality of such recordings. By teaching a model to adjust tone, balance loudness, and apply subtle audio effects similar to what a sound engineer does, we can take rough, real-world recordings and make them sound much more polished. The goal is to bring studio-like quality to everyday music recordings, without needing expert tools or skills.
Listening session
Wu Chengyu :: Stardust
Stardust is one track from my ambient electronic album where it takes me to… (Wu 2025). This track explores generative and electronics techniques with traditional Chinese instruments to envelop people with spectacular space.
Jônatas Asafe Mohr (Jonathan) & Roberto Henrique Machão da Cunha (Roberto) :: 40s Kaiju
40s Kaiju is a simulation of a kaiju attack in the 40s from the perspective of a man who his apartment building destroyed by a plane that crashed into it. Revealing to him the monster rampaging in the backdrop.
Ian Tang :: [no title]
[no title] is a work in progress. It might become a study, an exploration of the medium of Ambisonics mixing, an electroacoustic music composition.
Sting Wei :: Spring Blossoms
Spring Blossoms blends Chinese musical flavor and electronic textures, portraying nature’s revival. Harp samples, time-stretched and reversed with processing, broaden sonic potential, demonstrating an exploratory approach to sound-driven auditory storytelling.
《春暖花开》是中国风格的混合类电子音乐作品，，描写了春天到来万物复苏的景象 。
这首作品运用竖琴为主旋律乐器，通过采样竖琴进行电子化处理，利用拉伸、倒转等技
术手法，极大地扩展了声音塑造的可能性，是对关于运用音乐以及声音进行听觉叙事的一种探索。
Gérald Estadieu :: StormSphere
StormSphere is a 5th-order Ambisoniccs soundscape composition based on field recordings of very heavy weather, thunder, rain, and typhoons, which are common in Macau.