TUESDAY, 5 MARCH 2025

09:00 – 17:00

Morning Session
(09:00-12:30)

• Introduction (30 min): Overview: challenges and opportunities in tangible interaction and sound design.

• Material Exploration (30 min): Experiment with the starter toolkit, exploring various configurations. 

• Prototyping Phase 1. Hardware (30 min): Build a simple sensor-based instrument prototype.

• Prototyping Phase 2. Middleware (30 min): Connect instruments: OCCSI and plugdata.

Coffee Break
(11:00-11:15)

• Prototyping Phase 3. Software (30 min): Collect, visualize and process sensor data in Max using modulo.

• Prototyping Phase 4. Sound Design (45 min): Design various timbrical sound engine(s) and effects.

Lunch Break
(12:30-13:30)

Afternoon Session
(13:30-17:00)

• Prototyping Phase 5. Mapping (60 min): Explore mapping strategies and interactive machine learninig through the iterative process of recording, training, editing and running custom models based on examples of input-output pairs.

• Demo Preparation (60 min): Prepare a short demo that includes interconnected tangible objects, custom mappings, and distributed sound.

Coffee Break
(15:30-15:45)

Demo Session
(15:45-16:00)

Experience of the space interacting with sound.

• Group Discussion (30 min): Reflect on insights, challenges and further possibilities. Provide feedback.

• Documentation (20 min): Participants will document their prototypes, experiences and thoughts.

• Wrap-Up (10 min): What have we learned so far, and what are we going to do with this now?