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.

Urban Metabolism: Der Mond is a cybernetic performance and sound installation that recontextualizes the sociological framework of Urban Metabolism into the domain of electroacoustic improvisation.

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.

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

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.

Two papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Alexandre Francois; Robert Esler; Jeremy Hyrkas

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; Xingle Zhang; Bike Öner; Tom Williams; Genoël von Lilienstern; Jingyu Luo; Justyna Tobera; Ouyang Mingshan

Fixed media pieces by: Felipe Otondo; Yu-Cheng Huang; Leo Cicala; Chen Mu Hsi; Ye Peng; He Jing; Ray Fields; Antonio Scarcia; Lia Su; Seongah Shin; Guanjun Qin

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.

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. 

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Composers: Francesco Perissi and Giovanni Magaglio; Natsuki Kambe; Rodrigo Pascale; Roberto Cipollina; Henrik von Coler; Yao Hsiao; Cecilia Suhr

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.

Two papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Yunze Mu, Lorna Segall and Zhixin Xu; Sophie Rose

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.

Panelists: Lars Rye Bertelsen, Pia Preißler, Miriam Akkermann, Li Xiaobing, and Li Zhong

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. 

Composers: Joshua Rodenberg and Fumiaki Odajima; Lidia Zielinska; Zihan Wang; Howard Kenty; Naotoshi Osaka; Yixuan Zhao; Javier Alejandro Garavaglia; Danni Zhao and Congren Dai

Due to unforeseen organizational reasons, the Metropolis cinema remains closed until May 15, 2026. All scheduled fixed media pieces have been moved to Listening Rooms and Concerts. The film screening of The Man in the Mangroves counts to Sleep by James A. Moorer et al. will be shown during the Evening Concert 6B on May 16, 2026. 

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