How may we preserve the richness of uncanny processes while leveraging them compositionally. The act of composing computational media could entail the orchestration of event dynamics to quasi-deterministically enact degrees of instability and to enchant the stuff-of-the-medium. This process starts with of an ethico-aesthetical search for the excitable mysteries of matter (material-energy-affective processes), and leads to a careful orchestration of sensuous moments of knowing with others, humans or none.

During this hybrid theoretical and hands on workshop, we will explore non-anthropocentric sonification strategies that could endow a co-expressive voice to both everyday gestures and uncanny material processes. Participants are encouraged to bring with them: found objects, gestures, experiments, materials, or any curious process or thing. Together we will search for ways of making the imperceptible within them palpable via an array of material-computational techniques, ranging from basic electronics to continuous and topological approaches to gesture-following, machine-learning, and real-time sonification. All disciplines welcome! Applications of the topics discussed will range from speculative design and experimental phenomenology to interactive scenographies, movement arts, and art-science projects.