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SUMMARY:Installation | Finlay Graham: an egg with fouled neurons
DESCRIPTION: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. Through a 1-4 hour long performance\, this unbound harmony is explored within a spatialized environment. “The egg lacks organs and cellular structure\, but it could be alive. When vibrated\, it would notice the each simplified frequency. If you apply equal pressure to all sides\, it doesn’t break\, but moments of concentration are dangerous. If permeated and submerged\, it’s unclear where the egg begins\, and what is inside.\nThis work is structurally built around the frequency at 440 Hz (A4)\, but temporally it moves moves through 8 sections: \n1. the breath\n2. Subconscious initiation\n3. Embodiment/mirroring\n4. silence\n5. onset\n6. liberation\n7. oneness and death\n8. contraction \nAbout the artist\nFinlay Graham (b. 2005\, he/him)\, is an American composer and educator based in Asheville\, North Carolina and Oberlin\, Ohio whose work is inspired by nature\, spirituality\, emotion\, and intimacy.\nGraham is currently enrolled at Oberlin College and Conservatory studying Music Composition and Neuroscience with a minors in Music and Cognition and TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts). He currently studies composition under Jesse Jones. \n 
URL:http://icmc2026.ligeti-zentrum.de/event/installation-finlay-graham-an-egg-with-fouled-neurons/
LOCATION:Hamburg University of Technology\, Building N (Foyer)\, Eißendorfer Straße 40\, Hamburg\, 21073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:11-05,Installation
ORGANIZER;CN="ICMC HAMBURG 2026":MAILTO:info@icmc2026.ligeti-zentrum.de
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SUMMARY:Installation | Juan Hernández: "Helium Burning"
DESCRIPTION: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’ (Sagan\, 2014\, p. 231). 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. The triple-alpha process by which three helium nuclei fuse into a carbon nucleus in the core of a red giant star informs a comprehensive four-layer timbral morphing process. The sound synthesis model encompasses methods of transformation of microsounds such as granulation\, transposition and time-stretching of sound files (Roads\, 2003) as well as iterative re-synthesis procedures. Iteration in the successive sound synthesis stages connotes the recursion in the nucleosynthesis process. The system is devised after the three steps of the triple-alpha process: \n\nTwo helium nuclei form an unstable beryllium nucleus\nA short-lived beryllium nucleus may be approached by another helium nucleus and fuse into an excited state of carbon called Hoyle state\nThe Hoyle state decays to the ground (stable) state of carbon (Ryan and Norton\, 2010\, p. 105-7)\n\nThe rate at which the timbral morphing process evolves is mapped from the initial abundance ratios of the nuclei involved in the different steps of the nucleosynthesis process. As the piece progresses in time\, the transmutation of timbral substances is actualised\, evoking the transmutation of atomic nuclei in the core of a star. Form emerges from the timbral morphing process. The successive phases of the sound synthesis process are the building blocks of musical structure. Because of the plasticity intrinsic to their probabilistic nature\, stellar nucleosynthesis processes may serve as models for open-ended forms. \nThe performative concept underlying sound spatialisation in the piece connotes Niels Bohr’s observation on the essential aspects of quantum mechanics\, furthered and rephrased by Carlo Rovelli as ‘the unambiguous description of any phenomenon requires the inclusion of all the objects involved in the interaction in which the phenomenon manifests itself’ (Rovelli\, 2021\, p. 119). The fluctuating ambisonic panning of each sound grain draws attention to the significance of the interaction between the phenomenon of timbral transmutation and the listener\, actualising Rovelli’s contention that ‘all phenomena are quantum phenomena’ (Rovelli\, 2021\, p. 119). \nAbout the artist\nJuan Hernández is a composer\, performer and sound artist from Colombia. In 2024 he completed his Composition PhD at the University of Leeds\, under the supervision of Dr Ewan Stefani and Dr Oliver Thurley. Juan collaborates with Ángela Hoyos Gómez in a computer music/ sound installation/ digital performance project called Ulrica Dúo. His solo work and with Ulrica Dúo has been presented in different venues and galleries in Colombia\, Mexico\, Sweden\, UK\, Greece and Portugal. His recent work explores different strategies for designing new musical frameworks based on the analysis and mapping of data from astronomical sources. Juan is currently Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá\, Colombia. \n 
URL:http://icmc2026.ligeti-zentrum.de/event/installation-juan-hernandez-helium-burning-1/
LOCATION:Hamburg University of Technology\, Building N (Foyer)\, Eißendorfer Straße 40\, Hamburg\, 21073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:12-05,Installation
ORGANIZER;CN="ICMC HAMBURG 2026":MAILTO:info@icmc2026.ligeti-zentrum.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260514T110000
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SUMMARY:Installation | Leon Eckard: "Urban Metabolism: der Mond"
DESCRIPTION:TBA \n 
URL:http://icmc2026.ligeti-zentrum.de/event/installation-leon-eckard-urban-metabolism-der-mond/
LOCATION:Hamburg University of Technology\, Building N (Foyer)\, Eißendorfer Straße 40\, Hamburg\, 21073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:14-05,Workshop
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