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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11:00-15:00: Workshop: Solder your own synthesizer. An introduction to electronics and soldering
Are you interested in electronic instruments? Have you ever broken a cable just when you urgently needed it? In this workshop, you will learn the basics of soldering and try out soldering cables and various electronic components yourself. You will be well prepared for future soldering and repair projects. And the best thing about it: at the end, you'll have a fully functional synthesizer in your hands that you built yourself!
22:00-02:00: Aftershow party: Live electronics & DJ sets [ICMC]
From the conference room to the dance floor! The official ICMC after-show party will take place at the end of the conference. The party will kick off with selected live electronic performances - danceable music created with code in real time. Afterwards, DJs will take over and invite the guests to the dance floor.
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.