Off-ICMC
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Music is what connects us, even when everything else separates us.
Music is everywhere - it accompanies us in our everyday lives. But we experience it less and less when it is played live on analog instruments. Instead, it often comes from loudspeakers or headphones, from files, from the cloud.
What is music for you? What does it sound like today? Where does it begin, where does it end?
The ligeti center invites you to listen carefully and discover new sounds. To tinker and try things out.
For over 50 years, artists, musicians and scientists from all over the world have come together every year to explore the interplay between music and digital technologies. Now the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is coming to Hamburg-Harburg. Selected concerts are open to the public.
The Off-ICMC will take place in parallel from 11 to 16 May 2026: the free accompanying program on the topic of "Music in our digital age".
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10:00-18:30: Opening of the festival center
We open the festival week in Hölertwiete at Harburg Rathaus S-Bahn station. Harburg Info by Harburg Marketing will become the festival center for three days.
13:00-15:30: Workshop: Code the Beat - Learning to program through music
In this workshop you will compose your own music with the Sonic Pi program.
14:00-20:00: Installative insights into the ICMC [ICMC]
Computer music is the focus of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), which has been bringing together interested parties from all over the world for over 50 years. Selected installations by international artists, musicians and scientists can be viewed and tried out at the Stellwerk on May 11 and 12.
16:00-18:00: Stilt performance: Oakleaf Streetshow - Insect-o-lectic
A mixture of stilt dancing, body percussion and completely new sound technology. The street performance group Oakleaf Streetshow is coming to Harburg with an interactive walking act.
18:00: Concert: Nenad Nikolić - accordion meets techno
Nenad dispenses with background beats and plays every single note from "Tango to Techno" live.
Installations and performances: Transition | Tension | Potential
open continuously from 10.05. - 27.05.
At the transition between tracks 3 and 4 in Harburg's long-distance train station, the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof's display cases show materials and objects in transition. They do not show finished forms, but processes and contradictions.
Information on registration, ticket purchase and venues as well as more details on the program content can be found on the website of the ligeti center.