Live Space Lecture
2026-04-22. 11hr
by Stylianos Dimou
This lecture investigates multichannel convolution as a compositional and performative agent within the context of mixed and electroacoustic music, with particular attention to the productive tension between fixed acoustic environments and dynamically mediated spatial behaviour. Drawing on current practice-based research, the session advances a theoretical and technical framework for spatial hybridity — a condition in which the boundaries between instrument, signal-processing system, and loudspeaker space become compositionally indeterminate and mutually constitutive. Central to this inquiry is the notion of convolutional topology: the idea that impulse response datasets, when subjected to real-time manipulation, machine-learning classification, and multi-channel routing, give rise to emergent spatial morphologies that exceed the deterministic logics of conventional room acoustics modelling. Rather than treating convolution as a static imprint of a fixed acoustic site, this lecture reconceptualises it as a dynamic, generative medium through which spatial agency is distributed across human performer, algorithmic system, and architectural environment.
