We are Sounds Like Touch, a springboard for artists, designers and creators who like to make (literally) touching, electronic, performative arts by using their body for interaction. To be able to do this, many different expertises are needed. That is why Sounds Like Touch connects makers with different skill sets for collaboration and exchange of knowledge.
Sounds Like Touch organises Tactology Lab, symposia, meetups, and collaborative sessions that encourage artistic experimentation and knowledge exchange.
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Program
We host meetups in the form of artist talks, workshops, brainstorming sessions and try-outs in our Makerspace. Below you can see more of our past and upcoming events.
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Sonic Suit - DIY Wearable sound controller workshop
Sunday July 13th — 12:00 - 17:00 @ Sounds Like Touch Makerspace
Are you a musician, performer, designer, coder, dancer, or a curious maker who loves mixing sound, movement, and wearables? Then join us at the Sounds Like Touch Makerspace for a unique hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how to build your own interactive sonic garment using sensors, sound design tools, and your body.
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Exploration Meetup: Anneleen Bertels X Sounds Like Touch
Saturday May 10th — 16:00 - 18:00 @ Sounds Like Touch Makerspace
Are you a maker, artist, engineer, or designer interested in interdisciplinary crossovers? Then we warmly invite you to this Exploration Meetup where we dive into and dissect and brainstorm the possibilities of textile craft and sound, on Saturday May 10th, with Anneleen Bertels.
Network meetup // knowledge exchange // social get-together
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Tactology Lab 3: Craft Performance at Rewire Festival
Sunday, April 6th — 16:00 - 17:00
@ The Grey Space in the Middle, Paviljoensgracht 20, The HaguePerformances at Rewire Festival 2025 by the new Tactology Lab cohort!
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New Year’s meetup: Perforator x Sounds Like Touch
Saturday January 11th — 15:00 - 17:00
@ Sounds Like Touch Makerspace
Meetup about tactile interaction within electronic, performative arts and interdisciplinary crossovers.
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Open Call for Tactology Lab 3: craft
Tactology Lab is a multiple-day structured program that brings artists and creators together to explore new ways of (tactile) interaction with electronics.
The sign up for Tactology Lab is now closed
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BROMWOL
At U? Festival, we presented Bromwol: an interactive performance where you can experience and play electronic textile musical instruments created by music technologist Roald van Dillewijn, body-based interaction designer Dianne Verdonk and electronic textile designer Michelle Vossen.
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NIME Conference 2024
Sounds Like Touch is, together with HKU Music Technology and Gaudeamus, founding partner and initiator of bringing the NIME conference to Utrecht in September 2024.
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INTERWAVE MEETUPS
Interwave is a platform that transfers physical, tactile interaction into digital parameters to create music or other digital performative arts.
In the Makerspace we’ve hosted meetups to test and interact with this new platform.
