Feeling the Music: Embodied Listening Through Haptics

The second Joyshop held in honour of Black History Month was led by Warsame Isse, a MA student in Concordia’s Media Studies program, who transforms music into a multisensorial experience through the use of haptic devices. This intergenerational, in-person workshop consisted of a collective music-listening session where participants suggested songs by various artists from the Black diaspora and those connected to Montreal’s rich jazz history and felt the vibrations of these songs through a glove or vibrating table. The group discussed the meaning underlying song choices and provided feedback on their experience to the student-researcher.