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  • [Off-ICMC] Installations and Performances: “Transition | Tension | Potential”

    Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof Hannoversche Straße 85 (at the train station above platform 3&4), Hamburg, Germany

    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…

  • Paper Session 1a: History of Computer Music

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Hyunmook Lim; Paulo C. Chagas; Andrea Agostini

  • [Off-ICMC] Festival Opening

    Harburg Info Hölertwiete 6, Hamburg, Germany

    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 2a: Music Information Retrieval

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • Paper Session 2b: AI & Music

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Ditze Hörsaal (H 0.16) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • Listening Room 2

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (A 0.14) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • Listening Room 1

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (A 0.18) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • Installation | Miles Friday: “Breathwork”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (Foyer) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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 & Alessandro Aresta: “Faulty Oracle”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A, Videospace I (A 1.27) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A, Videospace II (A 2.34) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • Installation | Juan Hernández: “Helium Burning”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building N (Foyer) Eißendorfer Straße 40, Hamburg, Germany

    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.

  • Installation | Bill Parod & Teresa Parod: “The Elephants of Trianon”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Outdoor Area II Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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 | Zhao Jiajing: “Omniopticon”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A, Installation Space (A 3.35.1) Am Schwarzenbergcampus 1, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • Installation | Henry Windish, Tristan Peng & Henrik von Coler: “MËSH”

    Stellwerk Hamburg Hannoversche Straße 85, Hamburg, Germany

    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”

    Stellwerk Hamburg (Lounge) Hannoversche Str. 85, Hamburg, Germany

    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

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building F, NIT-Pool (R.E07) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 3, Hamburg, Germany

    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

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building I, Audimax 2 Denickestraße 22, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • INTREPID: Mittagskonzert #001 zur ICMC HAMBURG 2026

    Technische Universität Hamburg, Gebäude I, Audimax 2 Denickestraße 22, Hamburg, Germany

    Dieses erste Mittagskonzert bietet einen Einblick in die aktuelle internationale Computermusik-Szene. Das Besondere an diesem Konzert ist die persönliche Präsenz der Kunstschaffenden.

  • Introduction & Welcome to ICMC HAMBURG 2026

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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. 

  • [Off-ICMC] Stilt Performance | Oakleaf Streetshow: Insect-o-lectic”

    Harburg Info Hölertwiete 6, Hamburg, Germany

    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. 

  • [Off-ICMC] Concert: Nenad Nikolić – Accordeon meets Techno

    Harburg Info Hölertwiete 6, Hamburg, Germany

    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

    Friedrich-Ebert-Halle Alter Postweg 34, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • INTREPID: Abendkonzert #001 zur ICMC HAMBURG 2026

    Friedrich-Ebert-Halle Alter Postweg 34, Hamburg, Germany

    Dieses Abendkonzert markiert eine besondere Zusammenarbeit zwischen der internationalen ICMC-Gemeinschaft und der Hamburger Musikszene.

  • Club Concert 1C

    ligeti center, Production Lab (10th floor) Veritaskai 1, Hamburg, NY, Germany

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

  • Paper Session 3a: Music Notation & Representation I

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Tianze Zhang, Shingyui He and Lei Xuan; Juan Carlos Vasquez and Zhonghao Chen; Rob Canning

  • Workshop | Weiyi Dai: From Objects to Soundscapes: Participatory Spatial Composition through Data-Driven Multimodal Systems

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H (H 0.02) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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.

  • [Off-ICMC] Workshop: Creating Sounds with Fruit and Vegetables

    Harburg Info Hölertwiete 6, Hamburg, Germany

    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. 

  • Paper Session 4a: Music Notation & Representation II

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Rodrigo Cadiz; Solomiya Moroz, Nicolo Merendino and Massimo Sterlino; Orm Finnendahl

  • [Off-ICMC] Workshop: Music without Touch – Build your own Theremin!

    Hamburg University of Technology, WorkINGLab Eißendorfer Straße 40, Building N, 2nd Floor, Hamburg, Germany

    No keys, strings, or even physical contact: In this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to build your own theremin using electronic components.

  • Workshop | Henry Windish, Tristan Peng and Henrik von Coler: Working with MËSH: Advanced Tools and Strategies for Networked Instruments in Music and Sound Art

    Stellwerk Hamburg Hannoversche Straße 85, Hamburg, Germany

    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 2

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (A 0.14) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    Fixed media pieces by: Hyewon Kim; Rodney Waschka; Chun-Han Huang; Vadim D. Genin; Adam Stanovic; Takumi Harada; Ziyu Pang; Ray Tsai; Giancarlo Alfonso

  • Listening Room 1

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (A 0.18) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • Installation | Miles Friday: “Breathwork”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (Foyer) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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 & Alessandro Aresta: “Faulty Oracle”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A, Videospace I (A 1.27) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A, Videospace II (A 2.34) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • Installation | Bill Parod & Teresa Parod: “The Elephants of Trianon”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Outdoor Area II Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building N (Foyer) Eißendorfer Straße 40, Hamburg, Germany

    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”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A, Installation Space (A 3.35.1) Am Schwarzenbergcampus 1, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • Installation | Henry Windish, Tristan Peng & Henrik von Coler: “MËSH”

    Stellwerk Hamburg Hannoversche Straße 85, Hamburg, Germany

    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”

    Stellwerk Hamburg (Lounge) Hannoversche Str. 85, Hamburg, Germany

    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.

  • Lunch Concert 2A

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building I, Audimax 2 Denickestraße 22, Hamburg, Germany

    Music by: Salvatore Siriano; Huixin Xue; Benjamin Broening; Wan Heo; Jonathan Wilson; Christopher Dobrian; Mark Whitlam

  • INTREPID: Mittagskonzert #002 zur ICMC HAMBURG 2026

    Technische Universität Hamburg, Gebäude I, Audimax 2 Denickestraße 22, Hamburg, Germany

    Das zweite Mittagskonzert der ICMC HAMBURG 2026 führt die Zuhörer:innen auf eine Reise durch verschiedene Kulturen und technologische Ansätze.

  • [Off-ICMC] Workshop: Creating Sounds with Fruit and Vegetables

    Harburg Info Hölertwiete 6, Hamburg, Germany

    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: Some questions to computer music”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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. 

  • Panel A: Physiological and Physical Foundations of Creative Systems

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    This panel explores how artistic and creative systems can be understood through physiological and physical models of perception, cognition, and material interaction.

  • Evening Concert 2B

    Friedrich-Ebert-Halle Alter Postweg 34, Hamburg, Germany

    Composers: Riccardo Dapelo; Ching Lam Chung; Yongbing Dai and Yiping Bai; Nicolas Kummert; Jean-Francois and Charles Ramin Roshandel; Franz Danksagmüller

  • [Off-ICMC] Ctrl+Alt+Music: The Science Slam on Music in the Digital Age

    Kultur Palast Harburg Rieckhoffstraße 14, Hamburg, Germany

    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

    ligeti center, Production Lab (10th floor) Veritaskai 1, Hamburg, NY, Germany

    Composers: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano; Jules Rawlinson; Atsushi Tadokoro; Nicola Casetta; Julian Green; Doron Klant Sadja; Aaron Einbond; Claudia Robles Angel

  • Paper Session 5b: AI, Machine Learning & Pedagogy

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Ditze Hörsaal (H 0.16) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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 6b: AI & Machine Learning

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Ditze Hörsaal (H 0.16) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    Two papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Felipe Otondo and Leonardo Santos; Yu Chia Kuo

  • Listening Room 2

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (A 0.14) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • Listening Room 1

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (A 0.18) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • Installation | Miles Friday: “Breathwork”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (Foyer) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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 & Alessandro Aresta: “Faulty Oracle”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A, Videospace I (A 1.27) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A, Videospace II (A 2.34) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • Installation | Pasquale Savignano: “SURROUNDINGS”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Outdoor Area I Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Outdoor Area II Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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 | Tina Tallon: “yammer”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building N (Foyer) Eißendorfer Straße 40, Hamburg, Germany

    yammer is an interactive audio installation and performance environment that questions the ambiguities and limitations inherent in attempts to describe and represent music and other complex human expressive sonic events using commonplace ontologies in audio classification systems and large language models.

  • Workshop | Moritz Wesp, Eric Haupt and Victor Gelling: oscheat

    ligeti center, Production Lab (10th floor) Veritaskai 1, Hamburg, NY, Germany

    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”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building C Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 4, Hamburg, Germany

    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

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building I, Audimax 2 Denickestraße 22, Hamburg, Germany

    Composers: Juan Vassallo; Yoonjae Choi; Heloise Garry; Masatsune Yoshio and Athushi Mori; Mikako Mizuno; Jeffrey T.V.; Jian Feng

  • INTREPID: Mittagskonzert #003 zur ICMC HAMBURG 2026

    Technische Universität Hamburg, Gebäude I, Audimax 2 Denickestraße 22, Hamburg, Germany

    Dieses Mittagskonzert bietet eine faszinierende Bühne für Steinway Spirio – das weltweit fortschrittlichste Selbstspielsystem für Flügel.

  • Special Panel: Clarence Barlow

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Ditze Hörsaal (H 0.16) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    Panelists: Fabian Czolbe, Bernd Härpfer, John Chowning, Anne Wellmer; Moderator: Georg Hajdu

  • Piece & Paper Session

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    Three pieces & papers will be presented. Composers/authors: Xiangbin Lin; Kyle Smith; Nikos Baskozos

  • [Off-ICMC] Installation | Adriano C. Monteiro & Rafaela B. Pires: “DE/RE:GENERATION”

    Stellwerk Hamburg (Lounge) Hannoversche Str. 85, Hamburg, Germany

    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.

  • Banquet

    Speicher am Kaufhauskanal Blohmstraße 22, Hamburg, Germany

    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”

    Stellwerk Hamburg Hannoversche Straße 85, Hamburg, Germany

    “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

    Speicher am Kaufhauskanal Blohmstraße 22, Hamburg, Germany

    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 

  • Paper Session 7b: Interactive Media I

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Ditze Hörsaal (H 0.16) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • Paper Session 7a: Signal Processing I

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • Workshop | Rob Canning: Executable Scores: Embedded Cue Semantics and Animated SVG Notation with Oscilla

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H (H 0.02) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • Listening Room 2

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (A 0.14) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • Listening Room 1

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (A 0.18) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • Installation: Miles Friday: “Breathwork”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (Foyer) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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 & Alessandro Aresta: “Faulty Oracle”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A, Videospace I (A 1.27) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A, Videospace II (A 2.34) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • Installation | Pasquale Savignano: “SURROUNDINGS”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Outdoor Area I Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Outdoor Area II Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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 | Leon Eckard: “Urban Metabolism: der Mond”

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building N (Foyer) Eißendorfer Straße 40, Hamburg, Germany

    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.

  • [Off-ICMC] Rehearsal & Concert Visit for Families

    Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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. 

  • ICMA General Meeting

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Ditze Hörsaal (H 0.16) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    TBA

  • Lunch Concert 4A

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building I, Audimax 2 Denickestraße 22, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • INTREPID: Mittagskonzert #004 zur ICMC HAMBURG 2026

    Technische Universität Hamburg, Gebäude I, Audimax 2 Denickestraße 22, Hamburg, Germany

    Dieses Mittagskonzert markiert einen herausragenden Moment der Zusammenarbeit zwischen der lokalen Hamburger Musikszene und internationalen Komponist:innen. 

  • Keynote | Psyche Loui: Scales for Predictions, Creativity, and Music-Based Interventions

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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.

  • Paper Session 9: Music & Health

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • Panel: Music, Technology and the Mind

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • [Off-ICMC] Radioballett | Körperfunkkollektiv: “Fragment”

    Town Hall Square Harburg Harburger Rathausplatz 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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

    Friedrich-Ebert-Halle Alter Postweg 34, Hamburg, Germany

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

  • INTREPID: Abendkonzert #003 zur ICMC HAMBURG 2026

    Friedrich-Ebert-Halle Alter Postweg 34, Hamburg, Germany

    Dieser Konzertabend präsentiert die gesamte Bandbreite zeitgenössischer Computermusik in kammermusikalischer Besetzung.

  • MOVED: Fixed-Media Cinema Screening

    Metropolis @ Planet Harburg Herbert-und-Greta-Wehner-Platz, Hamburg, Germany

    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. 

  • Club Concert 4C

    ligeti center, Production Lab (10th floor) Veritaskai 1, Hamburg, NY, Germany

    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

  • Paper Session 10b: Interactive Media II

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Ditze Hörsaal (H 0.16) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Fabian Ostermann; Eun Ji Oh, Jun Woo Beck and Alexandria Smith; Penelope Bekiari and Anastasia Georgaki

  • Paper Session 10a: AI & Sonification

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    Three papers will be presented and discussed. Authors: Bob Sturm and Elin Kanhov; Ling Qi, Teng Ma and Alexandria Smith; Changda Ma et al.

  • Excursion: Departure to Lübeck

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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.

  • Piece & Paper Session

    Lübeck University of Music: Kammermusiksaal Große Petersgrube 21, Lübeck, Germany

    Four pieces & papers will be presented. Composers/authors: Christopher Trapani; Jocelyn Ho et al.; Xiangbin Lin; Yuan Zhang and Xinran Zhang

  • Workshop | Shelly Knotts, Daniel Ratliff and Lucy Whalley: Sonification and the Space In-Between: Bridging Scientific Inquiry and Musical Practice

    Lübeck University of Music: Holstentorhalle, Chorsaal Wallstraße 2, Lübeck, Germany

    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, Nicola Leonard Hein and Gilbert Nouno: Dialogues with Improvising Machines: an Embodied Cross-Testing Workshop on Musical Agents

    Lübeck University of Music: Ehemalige Bundesbank, Schalterhalle Holstentorplatz 2, Lübeck, Germany

    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.

    ligeti center, Production Lab (10th floor) Veritaskai 1, Hamburg, NY, Germany

    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)

    ligeti center, Production Lab (10th floor) Veritaskai 1, Hamburg, NY, Germany

    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)

    Lübeck University of Music: Großer Saal Große Petersgrube 21, Lübeck, Germany

    Composers: Jeff Kaiser; Minho Kang; Eric Lyon; Ilia Viazov and Nicola Leonard Hein; Nicola Leonard Hein; Dong Zhou; Olivier Jambois

  • Excursion: Departure (Return) to Hamburg

    Pick-up Location (Lübeck Excursion | Return to Hamburg) Wallstraße 16, Lübeck, Germany

    Buses returning to Hamburg will depart from Lübeck at 10:30 p.m on Friday, May 15. 

  • Paper Session 11: Studio Reports I

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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 II & Immersive Media

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H, Audimax 1 Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • [Off-ICMC] Workshop: Solder your very own synthesizer. An Introduction to Electronics and Soldering

    Hamburg University of Technology, WorkINGLab Eißendorfer Straße 40, Building N, 2nd Floor, Hamburg, Germany

    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 2

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (A 0.14) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • Listening Room 1

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building A (A 0.18) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • Lunch Concert 6A

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building I, Audimax 2 Denickestraße 22, Hamburg, Germany

    Composers: Yisong Piao; Kerry Hagan; Marc Ainger; Tiffany Skidmore and Patti Cudd; Patti Cudd; Konstantinos Karathanasis; Zouning Liao

  • INTREPID: Mittagskonzert #005 zur ICMC HAMBURG 2026

    Technische Universität Hamburg, Gebäude I, Audimax 2 Denickestraße 22, Hamburg, Germany

    Das letzte Mittagskonzert der ICMC HAMBURG 2026 bildet eine Brücke zwischen der tiefen Vergangenheit und der radikalen digitalen Zukunft.

  • Installation Showcase

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H (H 0.03) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    Works by: Michael Trommer; Julian Rubisch; Xingxing Yang; Yuxin Chen; Emanuele Sara; Arne Eigenfeldt, Jim Bizzocchi and Simon Overstall; Yongwoo Lee

  • Innovation Showcase

    Hamburg University of Technology, Building H (H 0.02) Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 5, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • Evening Concert 6B

    Friedrich-Ebert-Halle Alter Postweg 34, Hamburg, Germany

    Music by: James A. Moorer et al.; Nicolas Brochec; Yi-Tzu Huang; Sarah Proske; S. Ali Hosseini; Pierre Alexandre Tremblay

  • INTREPID: Abendkonzert #004 zur ICMC HAMBURG 2026

    Friedrich-Ebert-Halle Alter Postweg 34, Hamburg, Germany

    Das letzte Abendkonzert der ICMC HAMBURG 2026 rückt ein monumentales Instrument in den Fokus, das eine Brücke zwischen jahrhundertealter Tradition und futuristischer Technologie schlägt: die Orgel der Friedrich-Ebert-Halle.

  • Club Concert 6C (After Party)

    Stellwerk Hamburg Hannoversche Straße 85, Hamburg, Germany

    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

  • After Party

    Stellwerk Hamburg Hannoversche Straße 85, Hamburg, Germany

    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.