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Week of Events
Sunday, May 10, 2026
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Monday, May 11, 2026
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May 11, 2026 -Paper Session 1a: History of Computer Music
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May 11, 2026 -Paper Session 1b: AI & Music
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May 11, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Festival Opening
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May 11, 2026 -Paper Session 2: Music Information Retrieval
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May 11, 2026 -Installation | Miles Friday: “Breathwork”
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May 11, 2026 -Installation | Alessandro Anatrini: “Faulty Oracle”
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May 11, 2026 -Installation | Dahye Seo: “Unscored”
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May 11, 2026 -Listening Room 1
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May 11, 2026 -Listening Room 2
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May 11, 2026 -Installation | Bill Parod & Teresa Parod: “The Elephants of Trianon”
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May 11, 2026 -Installation | Finlay Graham: an egg with fouled neurons
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May 11, 2026 -Installation | Zhao Jiajing: “Omniopticon”
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May 11, 2026 -Installation | Windisch, Peng & v. Coler: “MESH”
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May 11, 2026 -Installation | Adriano C. Monteiro & Rafaela B. Pires: “DE/RE:GENERATION”
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May 11, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Workshop: Code the Beat – Learn to Code through Music
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May 11, 2026 -Lunch Concert 1A
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May 11, 2026 -Introduction & Welcome to ICMC HAMBURG 2026
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May 11, 2026 -Keynote | Robert Henke: “My Life as a Toolmaking Artist: A Personal Reflection on the Challenges and Rewards of Building My Own Instruments”
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May 11, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Stilt Performance | Oakleaf Streetshow: Insect-o-lectic”
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May 11, 2026 -Workshop | Serge Lemouton, Jacques Warnier, Malena Fouillou, and Laurent Pottier: Practical Documentation and Collaborative Preservation using Antony
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May 11, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Concert: Nenad Nikolić – Accordeon meets Techno
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May 11, 2026 -Evening Concert 1B
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May 11, 2026 -Club Concert 1C
Paper Session 1a: History of Computer Music
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Hyunmook Lim; Paulo C. Chagas; Andrea Agostini
Paper Session 1b: AI & Music
Two papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Hiroshi Yamato OrbitScore; Yuan Zhang and Xinran Zhang
[Off-ICMC] Festival Opening
We’re kicking off the festival week at Hölertwiete near the Harburg Rathaus S-Bahn station. The Harburg Info center will serve as the festival hub for three days.
Paper Session 2: Music Information Retrieval
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Axel Berndt, Aida Amiryan-Stein, Manuel Peters, Meinard Müller and Stefan Balke; Mário Pereira, António Sá Pinto, Treasa Harkin and Gilberto Bernardes, Gilberto Bernardes; Nádia Moura and António Sá Pinto
Installation | Miles Friday: “Breathwork”
Breathwork is a twelve-channel sound installation where loudspeakers become breathing bodies. Each loudspeaker is encased in an inflatable bag that swells and contracts in response to low-frequency drones, forming a slow, ever-shifting breath-like choreography.
Installation | Alessandro Anatrini: “Faulty Oracle”
Faulty Oracle is an adaptive audiovisual installation that conjures a gloriously unreliable divinatory machine. Visitors pose questions through body language: gestures, movements, postures which the system interprets, misreads, and willfully transforms. In return, the oracle delivers cryptic animated answers, flickering between epiphany, nonsense, and hallucination.
Installation | Dahye Seo: “Unscored”
A camera installed on a balcony captures the live sky, converting it into generative sound in real time.
Listening Room 1
Fixed media pieces by: Salvatore Siriano; Liuyang Tan and Tan Liuyang; Keisuke Yagisawa; Yiting Shao; Cristiano Riccardi; Qing Ye and Yuxue Zhou; Yerim Han; Weijia Yang; Wanjun Yang; Jinwoong Kim; Talia Amar, Talia Amar and Talia Amar; Jingfan Guo; Shih-Lin Hung and Ju An Hsieh; Yunpeng Li
Listening Room 2
Fixed media pieces by: Ayako Sato; Guanjun Qin; Chufan Zhang, Jun Wang and Qi Liu; Akiko Hatakeyama; Seongah Shin; Boyi Bai; Ed Osborn; Adrian Kleinlosen; Yu Linke
Installation | Bill Parod & Teresa Parod: “The Elephants of Trianon”
The Elephants of Trianon is an augmented-reality audiovisual installation that extends a series of public murals into an interactive spatial sound environment. The original work consists of ten adjacent murals painted on garage doors in a public alley in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Installation | Finlay Graham: an egg with fouled neurons
an egg with fouled neurons is a variable duration installative performance on a synthesizer fully coded by the composer in MaxMSP which utilizes a post-tonal framework to transform large harmonic sets, preserving the fidelity of harmonic intervals while transforming harmonic identity, allowing for movement through a complex harmonic pattern.
Installation | Zhao Jiajing: “Omniopticon”
Omniopticon invites visitors to step inside a constantly shifting field of sound.
Installation | Windisch, Peng & v. Coler: “MESH”
MËSH is an immersive, networked music and media system that blends interactive installation with live performance. Developed since 2019, MËSH uses a distributed array of interactive nodes to create a responsive audiovisual environment. Depending on the venue, installations range from 4 to 16 interconnected nodes communicating over a wireless local network.
Installation | Adriano C. Monteiro & Rafaela B. Pires: “DE/RE:GENERATION”
De/Re:Generation stems from a speculative question: would cicadas sense acoustic information during the up to 17 years they live underground, before emerging from the soil for a brief adult phase marked by intense acoustic display? From this perspective, the installation approaches sound not only as an auditory phenomenon, but as something sensed through the body, making vibration and tactile perception central to the experience.
[Off-ICMC] Workshop: Code the Beat – Learn to Code through Music
In this workshop, you will compose your own music using the program Sonic Pi. Are you passionate about music? Discover a new form of expression while learning to code.
Lunch Concert 1A
Composers: Sever Tipei, Claudia Robles Angel, Michael Edwards, Rodrigo Cadiz, Sunhuimei Xia and Sunhuimei Xia
Introduction & Welcome to ICMC HAMBURG 2026
ICMC HAMBURG 2026 welcomes this year's conference community to Hamburg. On this first full conference day, the team shares a few words about the week's program before Robert Henke gives his keynote about his life as a toolmaking artist.
Keynote | Robert Henke: “My Life as a Toolmaking Artist: A Personal Reflection on the Challenges and Rewards of Building My Own Instruments”
Robert Henke examines selected works of his from a critical toolmaker’s perspective: did he reinvent the wheel again, or did he achieve an artistic outcome which justifies the effort?
[Off-ICMC] Stilt Performance | Oakleaf Streetshow: Insect-o-lectic”
A combination of stilt dancing, body percussion, and cutting-edge sound technology. The street performance group Oakleaf Streetshow is headed to Harburg with an interactive walking act. Bizarre, colorful creatures on stilts buzz through the crowd—creatures that not only look like beetles but sound like them, too.
Workshop | Serge Lemouton, Jacques Warnier, Malena Fouillou, and Laurent Pottier: Practical Documentation and Collaborative Preservation using Antony
The goal of this hands-on workshop is to show, for the first time in an international context, the Antony system, now in its final state and fully functional.
[Off-ICMC] Concert: Nenad Nikolić – Accordeon meets Techno
Nenad Nikolić was born in Serbia and has always been fascinated by his father and grandfather’s accordion playing. But mechanical sounds are from the past. Nenad plays without backing tracks, performing every single tone live—from “tango to techno.” Don’t miss this chance to see him push the boundaries of his instrument with his electronic accordion.
Evening Concert 1B
Composers: Richard Dudas, Vincenzo Russo, Rikako Kabashima, Mara Helmuth et al., Kotoka Suzuki, Yu Chung Tseng
Club Concert 1C
Composers: Riccardo Ancona; Brian Lindgren; Riccardo Mazza; John C.S. Keston; Nicola Leonard Hein and Viola Yip; Kasey Pocius; Danilo Randazzo
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026
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Thursday, May 14, 2026
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Friday, May 15, 2026
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Saturday, May 16, 2026
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