Designing Interfaces for Spatial Musical Expression: An Ideation Workshop [Extended Abstract]

This workshop focuses on the design and lo-fi prototyping of novel interfaces for spatial musical expression. Participants will discuss what such interfaces might look, feel, and behave like, and consider which materials, gestures, and mappings could support intuitive and expressive control of spatial sound. Working with lo-fi prototyping materials provided by the organizers, participants will…

A colorful logo for the ICAD 2026 conference, displaying three I's that represent the conference theme: Sound to Inform, Inspire, Include.

International Conference on Auditory Display

The G3S team hosted a hybrid workshop at the ICAD 2026 conference, held on July 30th in Barcelona, entitled “Designing Interfaces for Spatial Musical Expression: An Ideation Workshop”. A total of 17 sound and music researchers participated across hubs in Bielefeld (Germany), Troy (USA), and Barcelona (Spain).  The workshop explored the design and lo-fi prototyping…