Workshops
Live Coding Workshop
Date : 15th September | Duration : 45 Minutes

Dr. Eldad Tsabary
Associate Professor
Concordia University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Eldad Tsabary’s main areas of expertise are in the domain of sound studies—specifically (1) sonic aural training and (2) live electroacoustic performance. Through these areas of inquiry, Tsabary has been developing educational approaches, tools, and strategies to better-understand and transform the diverse internal processes involved in sound perception, organization, and creation—both individually and collectively within an ensemble. Through cyclical, ground-up, collaborative research projects, Tsabary has been seeking ways to adapt the educational environment to emerging contexts, goals, and ways of knowing and learning among individuals (of various cultural and neurodiverse backgrounds).
He has been teaching electroacoustic performance, composition, and ear training at Concordia University (Montreal) since 2005, where in collaboration with his students, he created the Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk, 2010)—one of the largest and most prolific electroacoustic ensembles worldwide. With dozens of performances in prestigious festivals and venues worldwide, CLOrk has served as a fruitful research-creation platform for investigating the nature of collective improvisation, mediation, and creative process; and developing approaches for equitable, collaborative, neurodiverse co-creation.
With students and professors as co-researchers Tsabary has been developing strategies, pedagogies, and technologies for sound-focused ear training that encourage critical self-reflection, provide informative timely feedback, and foster self-motivated growth. Most recently, Tsabary has been leading the creation of Inner Ear—a SSHRC-funded browser-based collection of sonic-aural-training tools designed around principles of transformational education and findings from motivation studies.
As chair of ICOAH for four years, Dr. Tsabary brings a rich experience in administration and leadership. In recent years he co-chaired the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (2016) and the Montreal hub of the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC-ESCOM 2018), among service in several other conference committees. At Concordia University he is the coordinator of Electroacoustic Studies at the Department of Music, and coordinator (interim) of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts. He is also currently the president of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC)—Canada’s national electroacoustic association. Eldad received his doctorate in music education from Boston University.
Find out more about Eldad Tsabary here: https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/eldad-tsabary.html
Human Connection Within a Digital World

Jasleen Kaur Johal
Member at EPRC,
Director of Fundraising at Punjabi Market Collective
Biography
Jasleen Kaur Johal is an academic and activist, with a decade of experience working within the non-profit sector. The director of fundraising at Punjabi Market Collective, working with stakeholders and the City of Vancouver on projects such as redress for historic and ongoing discrimination against South Asian Canadians, Jasleen has prioritized working on tangible change within her community. As a young sociologist, Jasleen is currently working on research regarding policy reform in post-secondary institutions, for students with disabilities.
Within the theme of this year’s conference in exploring the promise and dangers of technological processes, this workshop addresses how human connection has evolved and how to nurture these needs in a healthy capacity. Technology and particularly social media platforms have allowed for an excess of human interaction in a condensed format, this intention may have been to provide connection but rather has caused desensitization to human stories. This workshop will go over the effects of this evolution as well as provide interactive opportunities for attendees to empower their emotional threshold.
Workshop on Academic Publications

Jonathan Pitches
Professor
University of Leeds
UK
Biography
Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance and Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. He specialises in the study of performer training, environmental performance and blended learning. He is founding co-editor of the journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training and has published several books in this area including Vsevolod Meyerhold (2003/18), Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting (2006/9), Russians in Britain (2012) and Stanislavsky in the World (with Dr Stefan Aquilina 2017). He is sole editor of Great Stage Directors Vol 3: Komisarjevsky, Copeau, Guthrie (2018) and author of Performing Mountains (Palgrave 2020), supported by the AHRC.
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