Dispersion Lab

11/24/2025

Dec 5 @ 2-3pm, CFA 334 (Dispersion Lab): New compositions from the students of MUSI 1140: Digital and Electronic Music I

see you there!

~~~~~~(flyer by Muntaha Begum)

11/20/2025

See you there! Accolade West Building, Room 103 (Transmedia Lab) on YorkU's campus (flyer by Gianluca Sabatini)

09/16/2024

Some new writings on new and ongoing research - if you happen to be at the Audio Mostly conference in Milan this week, come to the talk and hear more!

12/07/2023

EAO Fall 2023 Class Performance!

12/01/2023

11/16/2023

Last night! (JST time...)

10/20/2023

Another recent lab research publication, out now! also check it out:

Xi Lu and Doug Van Nort, “From Deep Listening to Aural Sonology: An Examination of the Dynamics of Electroacoustic Listening Practices”, in Proc. of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2023.

10/19/2023

Recent lab research publication, out now! check it out:
Shabbar, O., & Van Nort, D. (2023, August). Instrumental Agency and the Co-Production of Sound: From South Asian Instruments to Interactive Systems. In Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference.

research-article Free Access Share on Instrumental Agency and the Co-Production of Sound: From South Asian Instruments to Interactive Systems Authors: Omar Shabbar DisPerSion Lab, York University, Canada DisPerSion Lab, York University, Canada 0009-0007-3942-9559View Profile , Doug Van Nort DisPerSi...

09/11/2023

Summer flashback: hopping night at the pond!

Soundscape recorded June 15 2023 at the pond near Kearney Lake, Algonquin Park, Ontario

https://soundcloud.com/dvntsea/algonquin-park-pond-near-kearney-lake-june-15-2023

09/07/2023

hi everyone, you are cordially invited (in person or online) at 4:30pm *today* for Xi Lus 's MRP talk!

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Xi Lu
An Exploration of Electroacoustic Music: Instrument Design, Composition and Reception

Thursday, September 07, 4:30 PM
ACW 103

This project examines composing and listening in electroacoustic music contexts from several perspectives. It provides an overview of electroacoustic music analysis and its relationship to scholarship on listening and embodied music cognition. Starting off with free improvising and composing with electroacoustic music, building upon previous research that has explored a listener-based approach to analyzing electroacoustic music, this project investigates the audience's listening experience and its relationship to the various sonic attributes that result from the creative process. Accompanying the creative component, this project presents a preliminary experiment that explores the dynamics of audience listening by designing both concert-based and on-line listening sessions that capture reflections from the audience's perspective. The goal of this project is to broaden conversations around existing frameworks for electroacoustic music analysis to include an expanded understanding of listening – both in terms of composing and audience reception – as a holistic, embodied, and collaborative process within a creative context.

Xi Lu will present for 20 - 30 minutes followed by time for questions and discussion.

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