2025 AES International Conference on Breaking Barriers in Audio

2025 AES International Conference on Breaking Barriers in Audio

7:45am PDT

Conference Welcome Zoom

8:00am PDT

Amplifying Identity: The Historical Impact of the Queer Community on Audio Engineering and Electronic Music Zoom

8:20am PDT

Five Interviews with Chinese Electro-pop Musicians, Technologists, and Trailblazers Zoom

8:40am PDT

K-pop Culture and Protest: Bridging Generations, Identities, and Agendas in South Korea Zoom

9:00am PDT

Tutorial: Taking the Stage: Electronic Music Education as Empowerment Zoom

9:45am PDT

Demonstration: Enhancing Creativity: AI-Assisted Zoom

10:10am PDT

Cultural Gatekeeping: The Role of Oriental Superstitions in Limiting Women's Access to the Technology Zoom Cultural Appropriation and Unethical Adaption of African Music and its Artefacts Zoom Queer Acousmonia: ad-hoc multichannel sound as collective social practice within Berlin's experimental music community Zoom

11:00am PDT

Embodied Sonic Meditation Workshop: Promoting Audio Engineers' Wellbeing Zoom

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Break Zoom

1:00pm PDT

Keynote Dr. Leslie Gaston-Bird Zoom

2:00pm PDT

Music for the Masses: Expanding Diversity in Music Technology Through Representation and Sonic Empowerment Zoom

2:25pm PDT

Tutorial: Breaking the Sound Barrier: Building the Next Wave of Audio Zoom

3:10pm PDT

Networking: Breakout Rooms Zoom

3:50pm PDT

Practice-Led Perspectives on Biofeedback Music and Instrument Design Zoom

7:50am PDT

Brief Welcome Zoom

8:00am PDT

Mentorship: Building Inclusive Pathways Zoom

8:20am PDT

Decolonizing Audio Education: A study of engagement events with West African audio engineer, Tupaï N'Gouin Zoom

8:40am PDT

Designing for the Neurodiverse Population: A Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Framework for Inclusion Zoom

9:00am PDT

Expanding the Bandwidth: Mentorship Zoom

9:35am PDT

Be the Conduit | The Impacts of Showing Up & Networking Zoom

10:00am PDT

DEI Town Hall Zoom

11:00am PDT

The Death of "Industry Standard" Zoom

11:20am PDT

Reporting after Teaching Diversity in Music Technology Class Zoom

11:40am PDT

Learning through making: How critical making facilitated new works in my Gender in Electronic Music course Zoom

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Break Zoom

1:00pm PDT

Student and Youth-Led Initiatives Zoom

1:25pm PDT

Supporting Student-Led DEI Initiatives Zoom

2:10pm PDT

Breakout Rooms: Topic Discussions and Meet & Greet Zoom

2:40pm PDT

CROSSFADE Collective: Connecting Diverse Creatives Zoom Designing an Inclusive Acoustics Course Zoom Challenges of Terminology Localization in Chinese Audio Education Context Zoom Music for the Masses: Expanding Diversity in Music Technology Through Representation and Sonic Empowerment Zoom

3:30pm PDT

Creating a Culture of Accessibility: Disability Inclusion in the Audio Workplace Zoom

7:50am PDT

Brief Welcome Zoom

8:00am PDT

The Mind's Orchestra Zoom

8:20am PDT

Expressions of Selfhood through Interactions With Vocal Technology Zoom

8:40am PDT

Audio Engineering in Neurodivergent Hearing Loss: A Continuation of Research Zoom

9:25am PDT

Reflections from above: wisdom from women of a certain age Zoom

10:25am PDT

Assessing the Effectiveness of Head and Torso Simulators (HATS) in Representing Anthropometric Diversity for Inclusive Audio Systems Zoom Emotion-Aware Music Classification: Enhancing Diverse and Inclusive Audio Experiences Zoom Inclusive Sound: How Students with Disabilities and Minority Groups Excel in Audio Engineering Zoom

11:05am PDT

Amplifying Diverse Voices: Building Inclusive Audio Leadership Zoom

12:05pm PDT

Lunch Break Zoom

1:00pm PDT

Keynote Joey Stuckey Zoom

2:00pm PDT

The Future of Accessibility for Music and Audio Creatives Zoom

2:45pm PDT

Afros & Audio Zoom

3:30pm PDT

Deconstructed Cartographies: Exploring DEI through Audio-Visual Maps Zoom

4:30pm PDT

Conference Closing Words Zoom