SYMPOSIUM
AUDIO GHOSTS: Illusive perceptions – Perceptual illusions
Towards a practice-based exchange between psychoacoustics and installative sound art
November 14-15, 2025
Fanny Hensel-Hall, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
[Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna]
SP·CE Listening Gallery
[Billrothstraße 6/2, 1190 Vienna]
Two-day international symposium critically reflecting on the findings of the FW-PEEK art-based research project AUDIO GHOSTS to date, a practice-based exchange between psychoacoustics and sound art. Including the premiere of a new sound installation as well as discursive and artistic contributions. Together with experts from the fields of arts-based research, musicology, psychology, and sound art, we will reflect on the project in a broader context.
Including insights into the creative practice of the AUDIO GHOSTS team and invited guest artists:
- Artists and Students of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (GUEST ARTIST #3)
- Kai Fagaschinski, Berlin (GUEST ARTIST #4)
- Christopher Haworth, Birmingham (GUEST ARTIST #5)
- Matias Giuliani & Silvina Zicolillo, Buenos Aires (GUEST ARTIST #2)
- Christine Schörkhuber, Vienna (GUEST ARTIST #1)
In cooperation with the Artistic Research Center, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Acoustics Research Institute (ARI), Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Symposium language: English.
Free admission.
AUDIO GHOSTS Symposium, November 14-15, 2025
PROGRAMME
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ mdw – Fanny Hensel-Hall
[mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna]
10:00 Welcome address | Artistic research glimpse 1
10:20 Bernhard Gál: An introduction to AUDIO GHOSTS
11:00 Artistic research glimpse 2
11:10 Piotr Majdak (ARI): Psychoacoustics behind auditory illusions
12:10 Artistic research glimpse 3
12:20 Christopher Haworth: Boundary Objects: Perceptual and epistemic slipperiness in WSS
(weirdo sound synthesis)
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14:30 Artistic research glimpse 4
14:40 Piotr Majdak (ARI): A composer’s tool kit for selected auditory illusions
15:50 Artistic research glimpse 5
16:00 Summary | Feedback Day 1