Off-ICMC
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Music is what connects us, even when everything else divides 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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11:00-11:45: Workshop: Creating sounds with fruit and vegetables
In the composition workshop, you can let your creativity run wild. Many small musical instruments and a loop station are available.
11:00-13:00: Workshop: Music without touch - build your own theremin!
Without keys, strings or even touch - the theremin is one of the oldest electronic musical instruments and is played solely by hand movements in the air.
12:00-23:00: Installative insights into the International Computer Music Conference, Day 2 [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 35 years. Selected installations by international artists, musicians and scientists can be viewed and tried out at the Stellwerk on May 11 and 12.
14:00-14:45: Workshop: Creating sounds with fruit and vegetables
You can let your creativity run wild in the composition workshop. Many small musical instruments and a loop station are available.
16:00-18:00: Workshop: A new perspective on virtual reality with the audio VR game SONA "Diving in the Dark" [ICMC]
The workshop explores the question of how VR can be designed without visual information, using spatial audio as a central means of orientation and interaction.
19:30-21:00: Ctrl+Alt+Music: The science slam about music in our digital age
Curtain up for new sounds, science and research! At our science slam, complex topics are presented in understandable, entertaining and entertaining lectures.
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, materials and objects in transition are on display in the showcases of the Harburger Bahnhof art association. 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.