A camera installed on a balcony captures the live sky, converting it into generative sound in real time.

Fixed media pieces by: Liuyang Tan and Tan Liuyang; Yiting Shao; Cristiano Riccardi; 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; Qing Ye and Yuxue Zhou; Raphael Radna

Fixed media pieces by: Ayako Sato; Chufan Zhang, Jun Wang and Qi Liu; Akiko Hatakeyama; Boyi Bai; Ed Osborn; Adrian Kleinlosen; Yu Linke

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.

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

Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Hiroshi Yamato OrbitScore; Piero Poli; Minami Kojima, Takayuki Itoh and Rafael Ramirez

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.

Omniopticon invites visitors to step inside a constantly shifting field of sound.

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.

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.

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.

Pieces by: Sever Tipei; Michael Edwards; Rodrigo Cadiz and Thierry Miroglio; Sunhuimei Xia; Zoe Yi-Cheng Lin; Deniz Çağlarcan; Jeffrey T.V.

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. 

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?

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. 

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.

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. 

Artists: Richard Dudas; Vincenzo Russo; Rikako Kabashima; Jean-François Charles and Ramin Roshandel; Kotoka Suzuki and Michael Murphy; Yu Chung Tseng; João Pedro Oliveira

Composers: Keisuke Yagisawa; Riccardo Ancona; Brian Lindgren; Riccardo Mazza; John C.S. Keston; Nicola Leonard Hein and Viola Yip; Kasey Pocius

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.