Healing Soundscapes are developed and implemented for waiting and working areas in the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Adriano C. Monteiro and Rafaela B. Pires; Guanjun Qin, Yunxuan Jia and Neal Farwell; Sitong Wu and Jinshuo Feng
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Neal Anderson and Sanjay Majumder; Sam Pluta and Ted Moore; Tian Cheng, Tomoyasu Nakano and Masataka Goto
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.
Two papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Alexandre Francois; Robert Esler; Jeremy Hyrkas
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
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
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.
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.
A camera installed on a balcony captures the live sky, converting it into generative sound in real time.
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.
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.
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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
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
Healing Soundscapes are developed and implemented for waiting and working areas in the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Fabian Ostermann; Eun Ji Oh, Jun Woo Beck and Alexandria Smith; Penelope Bekiari and Anastasia Georgaki
Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Bob Sturm and Elin Kanhov; Ling Qi, Teng Ma and Alexandria Smith; Changda Ma et al.
Buses to Lübeck depart from Hamburg University of Technology at 10 a.m. on Friday. Please note that, due to limited seating capacity, only participants who have registered for the Lübeck excursion will be able to join.
Four pieces & papers will be presented. Composers/authors: Christopher Trapani; Jocelyn Ho et al.; Xiangbin Lin; Yuan Zhang and Xinran Zhang
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.
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.
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.
Composers: Jeff Kaiser; Minho Kang; Eric Lyon; Ilia Viazov and Nicola Leonard Hein; Nicola Leonard Hein; Dong Zhou; Olivier Jambois
Buses returning to Hamburg will depart from Lübeck at 10:30 p.m on Friday, May 15.
Healing Soundscapes are developed and implemented for waiting and working areas in the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
Three studio reports will be presented. Authors: Takeyoshi Mori; José Ricardo Barboza and Gilberto Bernardes; Ludger Brümmer, Götz Dipper and Dan Wilcox
Two studio reports and one paper will be presented. Authors: Hefang Ma, Jingyu Luo, Paul Francis, Mara Helmuth, Sangbong Nam and Wei-Huai Chen; Pedro Rebelo and Craig Jackson; Guilherme Coelho
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; Lluis Guerra Recas and Olivier Jambois
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
Composers: Yisong Piao; Kerry Hagan; Marc Ainger; Tiffany Skidmore and Patti Cudd; Patti Cudd; Konstantinos Karathanasis; Zouning Liao
Works by: Michael Trommer; Julian Rubisch; Xingxing Yang; Yuxin Chen; Emanuele Sara; Arne Eigenfeldt, Jim Bizzocchi and Simon Overstall; Yongwoo Lee
Demos by: Takayuki Rai and Haruka Hirayama; Walker Smith; Matthias Jung; Kieran McAuliffe et al.; Charles Hutchins and Shelly Knotts; Juliana Lüer et al.; Luca Morino, Nicola Conci and Fabio Cifariello Ciardi; Riccardo Mazza; Mohammad Sadeghi
Music by: James A. Moorer et al.; Nicolas Brochec; Yi-Tzu Huang; Sarah Proske; S. Ali Hosseini; Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Composers: Dave O Mahony; Eric Honour; Fiona Xue Ju and Drew Farrar; Yue Zhang; Dennis Scheiba; Anqi Liu and Han Zhang; Qing Ye and Yuxue Zhou; Danilo Randazzo
Join us in celebrating this year's ICMC in Hamburg! Following the final club concert, there will be an after party with DJs playing at Stellwerk Hamburg.
