What happens when we gather? What do we notice as things come together—and fall apart? What can we learn when we treat art and research not as finished outcomes but as unfolding experiments, spaces to ask questions of ourselves and each other? EMPAC is a living instrument: resonant, unpredictable, alive in the hands of those who enter it. And like any instrument, it has its holes—spaces for breath, gaps in knowledge, openings where something entirely new can sound. These aren’t flaws; they’re invitations.