INTREPID: Opening concert of the International Computer Music Conference

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The ceremonial opening concert of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2026 combines contemporary music and experimental sound research with historical positions in computer music. The concert will kick off with Clarence Barlow's work "Im Januar am Nil", 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.
A contemporary counterpart is Scanners, a choreographed composition by the internationally renowned Hamburg-based artist Alexander Schubert. Three selected works from the ICMC 2026 Call for Music round off the concert evening performed by Ensemble Resonanz and other Hamburg-based soloists.
The evening's guest of honor is the American pioneer of computer music and Grammy award winner John Chowning. The Stanford professor emeritus became famous for the development of FM synthesis and a method of spatializing sounds. Since 1974, the ICMC has been the world's most important platform for computer-aided music.

Alexander Schubert
Scanners

Nicole Brady
Ricochet (world premiere)

Anthony Paul De Ritis
Filters

Aigerim Seilova, Steffen Lohrey
Breath Mechanics (world premiere)

Clarence Barlow
In January on the Nile

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Performers
Ensemble Resonanz
Asya Fateyeva - saxophone
Vlatko Kucan - saxophone
John Eckhardt
Dulguun Chinchuluun - piano
Lin Chen - percussion
Conductor - Friederike Scheunchen

Eintritt: 28,00 EUR

Tickets are available on the website of the Elbphilharmonie available.

This year's conference is being organized by the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, the Hamburg University of Technology and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. In line with the joint collaborative project ligeti zentrum, ICMC Hamburg 2026 is dedicated to current developments in music technology, artificial intelligence and interactive sound formats under the motto "Innovation, Translation, Participation". Funded by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media