International Symposium On Musical and Room Acoustics 

May 24-27, 2025 at the Loyola University of New Orleans

Workshop #1: Design and Application of Listening Discrimination Tests

Saturday, May 24 // 9:00am – 12:30pm in Monroe 251

Presentations (order to be determined):

  • Victor Salvador: Discrimination tests in playing situation: Can players differentiate bows which vary slightly in terms of center of mass position and of moment of inertia? Discussion about players’ bias
  • Discrimination between instruments in listening situation: How to separate playing variations from differences between instruments:
    • Corto Bastien: The use of tetrad test  (when the test is based on recordings)
    • Claudia Fritz: The use of CR-DT (when the test is live)
  • Stefan Weinzierl: Discrimination tests used to evaluate the authenticity and plausibility of virtual environments
  • Tapio Lokki and Nils Meyer-Kahlen: Testing auditory illusions in augmented reality: Plausibility, transfer-plausibility and authenticity
  • Tapio Lokki and Sergio de las Heras Pérez:  Auditory Memory for Room Acoustics

Workshop #2: Build Your Own Musical Instrument

Saturday, May 24 // 1:30pm – 5:00pm 
  • Version A hosted by Malte Kob in Monroe 152: Acoustic instruments with basic materials (including vegetables!)
  • Version B hosted by Trimpin in Miller 112: Sound installations with MIDI-controlled distributed actuators