Gascia Ouzounian Keynote Speaker at Sound in Museums and CMMR

This Fall, Professor Gascia Ouzounian will deliver keynote lectures at two international conferences: Sound in Museums in Mafra, Portugal, and CMMR 2025, the 17th International Symposium on Computer Music and Multidisciplinary Research, at University College London.

At Sound in Museums, Ouzounian will present ‘Inaudibilities of the Sonic Museum,’ exploring how museums engage with sounds and sonic cultures that have been silenced, erased, or made impossible to hear. Drawing from her forthcoming book The Trembling City (MIT Press, 2026)--particularly her concept of negative acoustics--she will examine works by Youmna Saba, Gabi Motuba, and Satch Hoyt to ask how listening to the inaudible can surface hidden histories and challenge institutional forms of erasure.

At CMMR 2025, she will give a talk and co-lead a design workshop on vibrational architectures--architectures that foreground vibrational capacities rather than treating vibration as noise. Emerging from her ERC-funded project SONCITIES, these sessions will explore how vibration can reshape our understanding of architecture as a conductive field, tracing a genealogy of vibrational practices that reveal architecture’s aesthetic and political potential as an energetic phenomenon.