Week of Events
[Off-ICMC] Installations and Performances: “Transition | Tension | Potential”
Between platforms 3 and 4 at Harburg railway station, the displays of the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof present materials and objects in transformation. They don’t show finished forms, but processes and…
Sunday, May 10, 2026
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May 10, 2026 -ICMA Board Meeting
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May 10, 2026 -Opening Concert
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May 10, 2026 -Reception
Opening Concert
Welcome to ICMC HAMBURG 2026! Showcasing pieces by Alexander Schubert, Nicole Brady, Anthony Paul De Ritis, Aigerim Seilova and Steffen Lohrey, and Clarence Barlow, the opening concert takes places at the Recital Hall of the iconic Elbphilharmonie.
Reception
Following the opening concert, registered conference participants are warmly invited to a reception in the Recital Hall Foyer for an opportunity to meet artists, researchers, and fellow attendees in an inspiring setting overlooking Hamburg’s harbor.
Monday, May 11, 2026
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May 11, 2026 -Workshop | Finlay Graham: an egg with fouled neurons
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May 11, 2026 -Paper Session 1a: History of Computer Music
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May 11, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Festival Opening
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May 11, 2026 -Workshop | Pavlos Antoniadis: Lanthánon Chóros (Latent Space): Composing with objets trouvés and AI tools
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May 11, 2026 -Paper Session 1b: AI & Music
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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 -Listening Room 1
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May 11, 2026 -Listening Room 2
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May 11, 2026 -Installation | Pasquale Savignano: “SURROUNDINGS”
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May 11, 2026 -Installation | Bill Parod & Teresa Parod: “The Elephants of Trianon”
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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 -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 et al.: 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
Workshop | 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.
Paper Session 1a: History of Computer Music
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Hyunmook Lim; Paulo C. Chagas; Andrea Agostini
[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.
Workshop | Pavlos Antoniadis: Lanthánon Chóros (Latent Space): Composing with objets trouvés and AI tools
Derivative of a 5-month long composition workshop at the Greek National Opera, Lanthánon Chóros (Greek for “latent space”) proposes an introductory 3-hour long workshop for multimodal composition beyond the score and the DAW, where “objets trouvés” (found objects) are processed through ethical and sustainable AI tools.
Paper Session 1b: AI & Music
Two papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Hiroshi Yamato OrbitScore; Yuan Zhang and Xinran Zhang
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.
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 | Pasquale Savignano: “SURROUNDINGS”
SURROUNDINGS is a site-specific sound installation that transforms walking, listening, and spatial memory into a continuously unfolding sonic environment. The work is built from GPS-tracked field recordings captured through attentive movement in and around the exhibition site.
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 | 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.
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 et al.: 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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May 12, 2026 -Paper Session 3a: Music Notation & Representation I
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May 12, 2026 -Paper Session 3b: Physiological and Physical Foundations of Creative Systems I
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May 12, 2026 -Workshop | Dai Weiyi: From Objects to Soundscapes: Participatory Spatial Composition through Data-Driven Multimodal Systems
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May 12, 2026 -Paper Session 4a: Music Notation & Representation II
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May 12, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Workshop: Creating Sounds with Fruit and Vegetables
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May 12, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Workshop: Music without Touch – Build your own Theremin!
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May 12, 2026 -Paper Session 4b: Physiological and Physical Foundations of Creative Systems II
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May 12, 2026 -Installation | Miles Friday: “Breathwork”
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May 12, 2026 -Installation | Alessandro Anatrini: “Faulty Oracle”
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May 12, 2026 -Installation | Dahye Seo: “Sonic Flight”
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May 12, 2026 -Installation | Juan Hernández: “Helium Burning”
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May 12, 2026 -Workshop | Henry Windish et al.: Working with MËSH: Advanced Tools and Strategies for Networked Instruments in Music and Sound Art
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May 12, 2026 -Listening Room 1
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May 12, 2026 -Listening Room 2
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May 12, 2026 -Installation | Pasquale Savignano: “SURROUNDINGS”
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May 12, 2026 -Installation | Bill Parod & Teresa Parod: “The Elephants of Trianon”
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May 12, 2026 -Installation | Windisch, Peng & v. Coler: “MESH”
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May 12, 2026 -Installation | Windisch, Peng & v. Coler: “MESH”
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May 12, 2026 -Lunch Concert 2A
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May 12, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Workshop: Creating Sounds with Fruit and Vegetables
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May 12, 2026 -Keynote | Falk Hübner: The artist-researcher as a connector in times of crises: Four questions to computer music
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May 12, 2026 -Workshop | Thomas Meckel et al.: SONA – Audio-VR
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May 12, 2026 -Evening Concert 2B
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May 12, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Ctrl+Alt+Music: The Science Slam on Music in the Digital Age
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May 12, 2026 -Club Concert 2C
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May 12, 2026 -Performance | “MESH” Installation
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May 12, 2026 -Perfomance | Adriano C. Monteiro & Rafaela B. Pires: “DE/RE:GENERATION”
Paper Session 3a: Music Notation & Representation I
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Tianze Zhang, Shingyui He and Lei Xuan; Juan Carlos Vasquez and Zhonghao Chen; Rob Canning
Paper Session 3b: Physiological and Physical Foundations of Creative Systems I
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Amir Abbas Orouji, Ayoub Banoushi and Gilberto Bernardes; Nikolaus Knop; Ruby Crocker, Lucas Ong and George
Workshop | Dai Weiyi: From Objects to Soundscapes: Participatory Spatial Composition through Data-Driven Multimodal Systems
This workshop offers hands-on experience with Full House, a multimodal soundscape system designed specifically for participatory spatial composition. Through a real time data driven architecture, the system transforms the manipulation of physical objects into continuous spatial sound and visual processes.
Paper Session 4a: Music Notation & Representation II
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Rodrigo Cadiz; Solomiya Moroz, Nicolo Merendino and Massimo Sterlino; Orm Finnendahl
[Off-ICMC] Workshop: Creating Sounds with Fruit and Vegetables
Come and let your creativity run free at our composition workshop. We’ve got plenty of small musical instruments and a loop station ready for you. Play a fruit and vegetable piano, record sounds and play them back, and discover how to create your own beats.
[Off-ICMC] Workshop: Music without Touch – Build your own Theremin!
No keys, strings, or even physical contact: In this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to build your own theremin using electronic components.
Paper Session 4b: Physiological and Physical Foundations of Creative Systems II
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Rolf Bader and Simon Linke; Tim Ziemer; Simon Linke, Rolf Bader and Robert Mores
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: “Sonic Flight”
Sonic Flight transforms the live movement of birds over the skies of Berlin into a poetic soundscape, where each bird’s flight is mapped onto a musical staff or piano surface. As birds glide, swoop, and flutter across the video feed, their trajectories become sonic gestures—like notes traced in the air—creating an ephemeral composition in real time.
Installation | Juan Hernández: “Helium Burning”
Nuclear reactions in stars create a wide variety of chemical elements, starting from hydrogen — in Carl Sagan’s words, 'by a kind of stellar alchemy’. This process is known as stellar nucleosynthesis. Helium Burning is conceived as a generative system that addresses the affordances of such astronomical processes to explore timbral plasticity through digital sound synthesis in an 8-channel sound installation.
Workshop | Henry Windish et al.: Working with MËSH: Advanced Tools and Strategies for Networked Instruments in Music and Sound Art
This workshop introduces MESH, a portable, wireless system for distributed music performance and interactive installation. Designed as a flexible alternative to infrastructure-heavy networked ensembles, MESH enables performers to create spatially distributed musical systems using compact, self-contained nodes that communicate over a wireless network.
Listening Room 1
Fixed media pieces by: Sam Wells; Zihan Wang and Wenxin Zhou; Robert Sazdov ; Sebastiano Naturali; Yunze Mu; Clemens von Reusner; Youngjae Cho; Primrose Ohling; Iván Ferrer-Orozco; Andrea Laudante, Paolo Montella and Giuseppe Pisano; Teerath Majumder; Yu Qin; Wei Yang; Gabriel Araújo; James Harley; Raul Masu and Francesco Ardan Dal Ri
Listening Room 2
Fixed media pieces by: Hyewon Kim; Rodney Waschka; Chun-Han Huang; Vadim D. Genin; Adam Stanovic; Takumi Harada; Ziyu Pang; Ray Tsai; Giancarlo Alfonso
Installation | Pasquale Savignano: “SURROUNDINGS”
SURROUNDINGS is a site-specific sound installation that transforms walking, listening, and spatial memory into a continuously unfolding sonic environment. The work is built from GPS-tracked field recordings captured through attentive movement in and around the exhibition site.
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 | 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 | 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.
Lunch Concert 2A
Composers: Huixin Xue; Benjamin Broening; Wan Heo, Wan Heo and Wan Heo; Jonathan Wilson; Christopher Dobrian; Mark Whitlam
[Off-ICMC] Workshop: Creating Sounds with Fruit and Vegetables
Come and let your creativity run free at our composition workshop. We’ve got plenty of small musical instruments and a loop station ready for you. Play a fruit and vegetable piano, record sounds and play them back, and discover how to create your own beats.
Keynote | Falk Hübner: The artist-researcher as a connector in times of crises: Four questions to computer music
In this lecture, Falk Hübner will offer various examples of such socially engaged artistic research projects, and discuss the persona of the artist-researcher as a "connector" and the methodological consequences such a positionality implies. From this perspective, he develops a series of questions to the field of computer music, to explore and discuss bridges and potential connections between topics of socially engaged artistic research and the disciplines and discourses of (research in and through) computer music.
Workshop | Thomas Meckel et al.: SONA – Audio-VR
The workshop combines a presentation and discussion of the artistic and technical background with a hands-on opportunity to test SONA – Diving in the Dark.
Evening Concert 2B
Composers: Riccardo Dapelo; Ching Lam Chung; Yongbing Dai and Yiping Bai; Nicolas Kummert; Cecilia Suhr; Jean-Francois and Charles Ramin Roshandel
[Off-ICMC] Ctrl+Alt+Music: The Science Slam on Music in the Digital Age
Curtain up for new sounds, science, and research! At our Science Slam, the field of computer music is presented in clear, engaging, and entertaining talks. Speakers have ten minutes to try to score as many points as possible using PowerPoint presentations and (live) music. The audience decides who wins.
Club Concert 2C
Composers: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano; Jules Rawlinson; Atsushi Tadokoro; Nicola Casetta; Julian Green; Doron Klant Sadja; Aaron Einbond
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
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May 13, 2026 -Paper Session 5b: AI & Machine Learning I
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May 13, 2026 -Paper Session 5a: Novel Concepts in 3D Audio including Wireless Multi-Channel Audio as well as Physical
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May 13, 2026 -Paper Session 5b: AI & Machine Learning I
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May 13, 2026 -Workshop | Mari Kiruma and Pavlos Antoniadis: MUGIC® Motion-Sensor Workshop: Imagine, Move, Create
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May 13, 2026 -Paper Session 6b: AI & Machine Learning II
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May 13, 2026 -Paper Session 6a: Immersive Media & 3D Audio
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May 13, 2026 -Installation | Alessandro Anatrini: “Faulty Oracle”
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May 13, 2026 -Installation | Miles Friday: “Breathwork”
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May 13, 2026 -Installation | Dahye Seo: “Sonic Flight”
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May 13, 2026 -Workshop | Dennis Scheibe & Julian Rohrhuber: User = Developer: How to contribute to SuperCollider development
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May 13, 2026 -Listening Room 1
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May 13, 2026 -Listening Room 2
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May 13, 2026 -Installation | Pasquale Savignano: “SURROUNDINGS”
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May 13, 2026 -Installation | Bill Parod & Teresa Parod: “The Elephants of Trianon”
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May 13, 2026 -Workshop | Moritz Wesp, Eric Haupt and Victor Gelling: oscheat
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May 13, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Interactive Installation | Anouk Kellner: “Airchoir inter/reactive”
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May 13, 2026 -Lunch Concert 3A
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May 13, 2026 -Workshop | Dan Wilcox: Introduction to Zirkonium3: ZKM’s Sound Spatialization Environment
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May 13, 2026 -Piece & Paper Session
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May 13, 2026 -Special Panel: Clarence Barlow
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May 13, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Installation & Performance | Andrea Mancianti & Tom De Cock: “Autophagy III”
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May 13, 2026 -Banquet
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May 13, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Concert | Florentin Ginot: “Disturbance”
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May 13, 2026 -Club Concert 3C
Paper Session 5b: AI & Machine Learning I
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Jeff Kaiser and Gregory Taylor; Nicolas Brochec and Jean-Louis Giavitto; Minami Kojima, Takayuki Itoh and Rafael Ramirez
Paper Session 5a: Novel Concepts in 3D Audio including Wireless Multi-Channel Audio as well as Physical
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Laura Call Gomez, Gabriel Decker, Jayson Faupel, Aditya Rajesh Pawar, Jacob Westerstahl, Henrik von Coler; Teresa Carrasco; Mauro Cantonetti, Paolo Malpeli, Alessandro Anatrini
Paper Session 5b: AI & Machine Learning I
Three papers will be discussed. Authors: Jeff Kaiser and Gregory Taylor; Nicolas Brochec and Jean-Louis Giavitto; Minami Kojima, Takayuki Itoh and Rafael Ramirez
Workshop | Mari Kiruma and Pavlos Antoniadis: MUGIC® Motion-Sensor Workshop: Imagine, Move, Create
MUGIC® (Music/User Gesture Interface Control) is a groundbreaking motion sensor designed to deepen, not replace, musicianship.
Paper Session 6b: AI & Machine Learning II
Three papers will be presented and discussed: Giovanni Roma and Alba Francesca Battista; Abhirup Saha, Hans-Ulrich Berendes, Meinard Müller and Ben Maman; Yu Foon Darin Chau and Andrew Horner
Paper Session 6a: Immersive Media & 3D Audio
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Felipe Otondo and Leonardo Santos; Yu Chia Kuo; Piero Poli
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 | 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 | Dahye Seo: “Sonic Flight”
Sonic Flight transforms the live movement of birds over the skies of Berlin into a poetic soundscape, where each bird’s flight is mapped onto a musical staff or piano surface. As birds glide, swoop, and flutter across the video feed, their trajectories become sonic gestures—like notes traced in the air—creating an ephemeral composition in real time.
Workshop | Dennis Scheibe & Julian Rohrhuber: User = Developer: How to contribute to SuperCollider development
SuperCollider, being a free and open-source project, stands in contrast to non-open projects in that it doesn’t impose technical and legal barriers to users accessing and modifying its inner workings.
Listening Room 1
Fixed media pieces by: Mikel Kuehn; Joan Tan; Taito Fushimi; Andreas Weixler; Wonseok Choi; Hector Bravo Benard; Tom Bañados Russell; Felipe Tovar-Henao; Kim Hedås; Sean Peuquet; Juan Carlos Vasquez; Wen-Chia Lien; Tomás Koljatic S.; David Nguyen; Hanae Azuma; Jong Gyun Kim
Listening Room 2
Fixed media pieces by: Jeonghun Hyun; Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris; Ray Tsai; Juan J.G. Escudero; Emilio Casaburi; Yi-Hsien Chen; Pingting Xiao; Xiaoyu Su; Pak Hei Leung
Installation | Pasquale Savignano: “SURROUNDINGS”
SURROUNDINGS is a site-specific sound installation that transforms walking, listening, and spatial memory into a continuously unfolding sonic environment. The work is built from GPS-tracked field recordings captured through attentive movement in and around the exhibition site.
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.
Workshop | Moritz Wesp, Eric Haupt and Victor Gelling: oscheat
oscheat is a work-in-progress multi-user interface based on OSC. Its purpose is to simplifyand formalise shared, real-time control of musical parameters across an ensemble. Instead of separating instruments by performer, oscheat functions as a collective parameter space in which all participants can change each other’s instrument sound generation, spatialization, tonal systems or rhythmic structures.
[Off-ICMC] Interactive Installation | Anouk Kellner: “Airchoir inter/reactive”
The interactive sound installation Airchoir consists of eight inflatable figures that breathe in and out like living lungs. Their voices are heard through the organ pipes to which they are connected. Like a choir, they come together to form a multi-layered soundscape that constantly changes with the movement of the visitors.
Lunch Concert 3A
Composers: Juan Vassallo; Yoonjae Choi; Heloise Garry; Masatsune Yoshio; Mikako Mizuno; Richard Scott
Workshop | Dan Wilcox: Introduction to Zirkonium3: ZKM’s Sound Spatialization Environment
Zirkonium is a free spatialized sound environment for the ZKM | Hertzlab, formerly ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics, which wraps various spatialization algorithms and abstracted speaker layouts with a path sequencing interface designed for composers in mind.
Piece & Paper Session
Three pieces & papers will be presented. Composers/authors: Raphael Radna; Kyle Smith; Nikos Baskozos
Special Panel: Clarence Barlow
Panelists: Fabian Czolbe, Bernd Härpfer, John Chowning, Anne Wellmer; Moderator: Georg Hajdu
[Off-ICMC] Installation & Performance | Andrea Mancianti & Tom De Cock: “Autophagy III”
Autophagy III is a participatory installation that visitors can walk through and interact with: the interplay of small percussion instruments, sixteen suspended sound sources, and an interactive lighting system creates an immersive soundscape.
Banquet
Join us for the ICMC HAMBURG 2026 Banquet at the exceptional Speicher am Kaufhauskanal – one of Harburg’s most atmospheric historic venues.
[Off-ICMC] Concert | Florentin Ginot: “Disturbance”
“Disturbance” is an audiovisual solo performance that blends elements of concert, video art, and theater. With his double bass and analog synthesizers, Florentin Ginot invites the audience on a live nocturnal journey. Past and present collide with ghostly glitches and pulsating electronic rhythms.
Club Concert 3C
Composers: Fernando Egido; Juan Arturo Parra Cancino; Jonathan Wilson; Enrique Tomás and Moisés Horta Valenzuela; Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas Weixler; Oscar Corpo; Rob Canning; Denis Polec Vocal
Thursday, May 14, 2026
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May 14, 2026 -Paper Session 7a: Signal Processing I
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May 14, 2026 -Paper Session 7b: Interactive Media
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May 14, 2026 -Paper Session 7a: Signal Processing I
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May 14, 2026 -Paper Session 7a: Signal Processing I
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May 14, 2026 -Paper Session 7b: Interactive Media
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May 14, 2026 -Workshop | Rob Canning: Executable Scores: Embedded Cue Semantics and Animated SVG Notation with Oscilla
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May 14, 2026 -Paper Session 8: Signal Processing II
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May 14, 2026 -Installation: Miles Friday: “Breathwork”
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May 14, 2026 -Installation | Dahye Seo: “Sonic Flight”
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May 14, 2026 -Installation | Alessandro Anatrini: “Faulty Oracle”
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May 14, 2026 -Listening Room 1
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May 14, 2026 -Listening Room 2
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May 14, 2026 -Installation | Pasquale Savignano: “SURROUNDINGS”
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May 14, 2026 -Installation | Bill Parod & Teresa Parod: “The Elephants of Trianon”
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May 14, 2026 -Installation | Leon Eckard: “Urban Metabolism: der Mond”
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May 14, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Rehearsal & Concert Visit for Families
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May 14, 2026 -Lunch Concert 4A
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May 14, 2026 -Keynote | Psyche Loui: Scales for Predictions, Creativity, and Music-Based Interventions
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May 14, 2026 -Workshop | Robert Cole Rizzi: The Art of Listening – To Hamburg. A Participatory Soundwalk Workshop
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May 14, 2026 -Panel: Music, Technology and the Mind
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May 14, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Radioballett | Körperfunkkollektiv: “Fragment”
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May 14, 2026 -Evening Concert 4B
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May 14, 2026 -Cinema
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May 14, 2026 -Club Concert 4C
Paper Session 7a: Signal Processing I
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Neal Anderson and Sanjay Majumder; Sam Pluta and Ted Moore; Jeremy Hyrkas
Paper Session 7b: Interactive Media
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Adriano C. Monteiro and Rafaela B. Pires; Guanjun Qin and Yunxuan Jia; Sitong Wu and Jinshuo Feng
Paper Session 7a: Signal Processing I
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Neal Anderson and Sanjay Majumder; Sam Pluta and Ted Moore; Jeremy Hyrkas
Paper Session 7a: Signal Processing I
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Neal Anderson and Sanjay Majumder; Sam Pluta and Ted Moore; Jeremy Hyrkas
Paper Session 7b: Interactive Media
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Adriano C. Monteiro and Rafaela B. Pires; Guanjun Qin and Yunxuan Jia; Sitong Wu and Jinshuo Feng
Workshop | Rob Canning: Executable Scores: Embedded Cue Semantics and Animated SVG Notation with Oscilla
This workshop introduces Oscilla, a browser-based framework for animated, cue-driven graphic scores in which performance semantics are embedded directly into SVG notation. Rather than separating score, control system, and playback environment, Oscilla treats the score as a single executable surface—authored visually in Inkscape and enacted in real time via a lightweight browser runtime.
Paper Session 8: Signal Processing II
Two papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Alexandre Francois; Robert Esler; Tian Cheng, Tomoyasu Nakano and Masataka Goto
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 | Dahye Seo: “Sonic Flight”
Sonic Flight transforms the live movement of birds over the skies of Berlin into a poetic soundscape, where each bird’s flight is mapped onto a musical staff or piano surface. As birds glide, swoop, and flutter across the video feed, their trajectories become sonic gestures—like notes traced in the air—creating an ephemeral composition in real time.
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.
Listening Room 1
Fixed media pieces by: Zoe Yi-Cheng Lin; Yuming Sun; Shunhang Huang; Takeyoshi Mori; Chi Wang; John Thompson; Woon Seung Yeo and Ji Won Yoon; Dave O Mahony; Xingle Zhang; Ouyang Mingshan; Ji Won Yoon and Woon Seung Yeo; Bike Öner; Tom Williams
Listening Room 2
Fixed media pieces by: Felipe Otondo; Yu-Cheng Huang; Leo Cicala; Chen Mu Hsi; Ye Peng; He Jing; Ray Fields; Antonio Scarcia; Lia Su
Installation | Pasquale Savignano: “SURROUNDINGS”
SURROUNDINGS is a site-specific sound installation that transforms walking, listening, and spatial memory into a continuously unfolding sonic environment. The work is built from GPS-tracked field recordings captured through attentive movement in and around the exhibition site.
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.
[Off-ICMC] Rehearsal & Concert Visit for Families
What does contemporary music sound like? What happens during the rehearsals? And what challenges might occur? We’ll look into these questions during rehearsal and concert visit for families.
Lunch Concert 4A
Composers: Roberto Cipollina and Eleonora Podestà; Henrik von Coler; Yao Hsiao; Rodrigo Pascale; Natsuki Kambe; Zhixin Xu and Yunze Mu
Keynote | Psyche Loui: Scales for Predictions, Creativity, and Music-Based Interventions
Music unites listeners through shared predictions and reward. At the heart of this process is the musical scale—a designed object that quantizes pitch into structures capable of generating and fulfilling expectation. A survey of the world’s scales reveals five core design features and a single overarching dimension of enculturation, ranging from deeply familiar tonal systems to entirely novel sonic environments.
Workshop | Robert Cole Rizzi: The Art of Listening – To Hamburg. A Participatory Soundwalk Workshop
How does the world sound when we truly listen? In this participatory workshop, participants explore their sonic environment through attentive listening, simple drawing, poetry, and playful composition — no musical experience required.
Panel: Music, Technology and the Mind
Panelists: Lars Rye Bertelsen, Pia Preissler, Miriam Akkermann, Li Xiaobing, and Li Zhong
[Off-ICMC] Radioballett | Körperfunkkollektiv: “Fragment”
Radioballett is an interactive performance that draws you into another world through wireless headphones, where you and other participants can actively shape the space together.
The piece “Fragment” explores the boundaries between private and public life through human experiences in both real and virtual worlds. It invites everyone to reflect on the balance between digital and “offline” existence and to engage with the interplay between social interaction and online networks.
Evening Concert 4B
Composers: Lidia Zielinska; Zihan Wang; Howard Kenty; Naotoshi Osaka; Yixuan Zhao; Javier Alejandro Garavaglia; Danni Zhao and Congren Dai
Club Concert 4C
Composers: Gintas Kraptavicius; Calvin McCormack; Jonathan Impett; Moritz Wesp, Eric Haupt and Victor Gelling; Paulo C. Chagas; Cat Hope and Juan Parra Cancino; Andrew Loveless
Friday, May 15, 2026
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May 15, 2026 -Paper Session 9: Music & Health
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May 15, 2026 -Paper Session 10b: Interactive Media II
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May 15, 2026Excursion: Departure to Lübeck
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May 15, 2026 -Piece & Paper Session
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May 15, 2026 -Keynote | James Andy Moorer: History of Computer Music from Mathews to “Man in the Mangroves”
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May 15, 2026 -Workshop | Shelly Knotts et al.: Sonification and the Space In-Between: Bridging Scientific Inquiry and Musical Practice
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May 15, 2026 -Workshop | Pierre Alexandre Tremblay et al.: Dialogues with Improvising Machines: an Embodied Cross-Testing Workshop on Musical Agents
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May 15, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Sound Bar: “Sono, ergo sum.” – I sound, therefore I am.
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May 15, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Experimental Reading: Harburg. Das Buch – Excursions in Voice, Photo & Music (German)
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May 15, 2026 -Evening Concert 5B (Lübeck)
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May 15, 2026Excursion: Departure (Return) to Hamburg
Paper Session 9: Music & Health
Two papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Sophie Rose; Yunze Mu, Lorna Segall and Zhixin Xu
Paper Session 10b: Interactive Media II
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Fabian Ostermann; Eun Ji Oh, Jun Woo Beck and Alexandria Smith; Penelope Bekiari and Anastasia Georgaki
Piece & Paper Session
Four pieces & papers will be presented. Composers/authors: Christopher Trapani; Jocelyn Ho et al.; Xiangbin Lin; Yun Zhang and Xinran Zhang
Keynote | James Andy Moorer: History of Computer Music from Mathews to “Man in the Mangroves”
The origins of computer music promised unlimited freedom for composers to make music using sounds that no acoustic instrument could make. This freedom comes with a price.
Workshop | Shelly Knotts et al.: Sonification and the Space In-Between: Bridging Scientific Inquiry and Musical Practice
This workshop explores the rich interdisciplinary space that lies between computer music composition and scientific inquiry, focusing on sonification as a shared methodology, bridging between disciplines, rather than a discipline-specific technique.
Workshop | Pierre Alexandre Tremblay et al.: Dialogues with Improvising Machines: an Embodied Cross-Testing Workshop on Musical Agents
This 2.5-hour workshop examines four musical agent systems through a structured process of presentation, performance, collective listening, and critical discussion. It addresses a central contemporary question in computer music: how the design of musical agents encodes particular modes of listening, interaction, and agency, and how these design choices shape musical practice.
[Off-ICMC] Sound Bar: “Sono, ergo sum.” – I sound, therefore I am.
The Soundbar is a performative pop-up bar that brings together socializing, drinks, and jam sessions. It serves as a workshop and experimental space, offering an environment for exploring sound, finding inspiration, and connecting with others. What does your favorite drink sound like? Join us for Soundbar’s vibrant sound journeys. Let your glasses sing and discover new levels of sensory experience at the bar.
[Off-ICMC] Experimental Reading: Harburg. Das Buch – Excursions in Voice, Photo & Music (German)
Author Bärbel (Bascha) Wegner, photographer Steven Haberland, and musician Clarks Planet bring together text, images, and sound in a multi-layered exploration of the city of Harburg. Storytelling meets improvised music, photographs interact with sound and field recordings.
The familiar takes on new shapes, improvisation unfolds—opening up fresh perspectives on the neighborhood, not least from the vantage point of the Production Lab on the 10th floor.
Evening Concert 5B (Lübeck)
Composers: Jeff Kaiser; Minho Kang; Eric Lyon; Ilia Viazov and Nicola Leonard Hein; Nicola Leonard Hein; Dong Zhou; Olivier Jambois
Saturday, May 16, 2026
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May 16, 2026 -Paper Session 11: Studio Reports I
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May 16, 2026 -Paper Session 12: Studio Reports
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May 16, 2026 -[Off-ICMC] Workshop: Solder your very own synthesizer. An Introduction to Electronics and Soldering
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May 16, 2026 -Listening Room 1
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May 16, 2026 -Listening Room 2
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May 16, 2026 -Lunch Concert 6A
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May 16, 2026 -Installation Showcase
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May 16, 2026 -Evening Concert 6B
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May 16, 2026 -Club Club Concert 6C (After Party)
Paper Session 11: Studio Reports I
Three studio reports will be presented. Authors: Takeyoshi Mori; José Ricardo Barboza and Gilberto Bernardes; Ludger Brümmer, Götz Dipper and Dan Wilcox
Paper Session 12: Studio Reports
Two studio reports will be presented. Authors: Hefang Ma, Jingyu Luo, Paul Francis, Mara Helmuth, Sangbong Nam and Wei-Huai Chen; Pedro Rebelo and Craig Jackson
[Off-ICMC] Workshop: Solder your very own synthesizer. An Introduction to Electronics and Soldering
In this workshop, you’ll discover the basics of soldering and get hands-on experience soldering cables and various electronic components. It will leave you well-prepared for future soldering and repair projects. And the best part? By the end, you’ll have a fully operational synthesizer that you built yourself!
Listening Room 1
Fixed media pieces by: Giovanni Crovetto; Matteo Tomasetti, Francesco Casanova, Andrea Veneri, Vili Pääkkö and Andrea Strata; Ziwei Yang; Tolga Yayalar; Leonidas Spiliopoulos
Nicola Giannini; Neal Farwell; Mathieu Lacroix; Rikhardur H. Fridriksson; Daniel Mayer; Allison Ogden; Jan Jacob Hofmann; Vilbjørg Broch; Daniel Gomes; Aleksandar Zecevic and; Kiran Bhumber; Martin Heinze; Cristian Gabriele Argento
Listening Room 2
Fixed media pieces by: Faming Qin; Varun Kishore; Chun-Han Huang; Nattakon Lertwattanaruk; Silvia Matheus; Paul Oehlers; Tekstil Nayaka Adinata and Muhammad Welderahmat; Keming Zeng; Yufen Qiu; 璟 李
Lunch Concert 6A
Composers: Yisong Piao; Miller Puckette and Kerry Hagan; Marc Ainger; Tiffany Skidmore and Patti Cudd; Patti Cudd; Konstantinos Karathanasis
Installation Showcase
Works by: Michael Trommer; Julian Rubisch; Xingxing Yang; Yuxin Chen; Emanuele Sara; Arne Eigenfeldt, Jim Bizzocchi and Simon Overstall; Yongwoo Lee
Evening Concert 6B
Composers: Nicolas Brochec; Jian Feng; Yi-Tzu Huang; Sarah Proske; Franz Danksagmüller; S. Ali Hosseini; Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Club Club Concert 6C (After Party)
Composers: Eric Honour; Drew Farrar; Joshua Rodenberg and Fumiaki Odajima; Yue Zhang; Dennis Scheiba; Anqi Liu and Han Zhang
