• 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

  • 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. 

  • 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

  • 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

  • Keynote | Falk Hübner: “The artist-researcher as a connector in times of crises: Four 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. 

  • Paper Session 6a: Immersive Media & 3D Audio

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

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

  • 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: Raphael Radna; Kyle Smith; Nikos Baskozos

  • 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; Jeremy Hyrkas

  • 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; Tian Cheng, Tomoyasu Nakano and Masataka Goto

  • 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: Sophie Rose; Yunze Mu, Lorna Segall and Zhixin Xu

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

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

    Two studio reports will be presented. Authors: Hefang Ma, Jingyu Luo, Paul Francis, Mara Helmuth, Sangbong Nam and Wei-Huai Chen; Pedro Rebelo and Craig Jackson