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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Program on 10.05.2026
19:30 -21:30: INTREPID: Opening concert of the International Computer Music Conference
The opening concert of the International Computer Music Conference - ICMC HAMBURG 2026 combines contemporary music and experimental sound research with historical positions in computer music. "Scanners", a choreographed composition by HfMT professor and internationally renowned artist Alexander Schubert, will kick things off. A historical counterpart is the work "Im Januar am Nil" by Clarence Barlow, composed in 1984. The composer, who was born 80 years ago in Calcutta, was one of the most important pioneers of computer music in Cologne. Three selected works from the ICMC Hamburg 2026 Call for Music will round off the concert evening performed by Ensemble Resonanz and other Hamburg-based soloists.

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 Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof. They do not show finished forms, but processes and contradictions.

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In addition to the official ICMC conference program, this year's ICMC also includes the INTREPID festival with public concerts and the free accompanying festival Off-ICMC.

The complete program as well as information on registration, ticket purchase and venues and further details on the program content can be found on the conference page of the ligeti center.