The Tangible Music Lab will organize its first Postdigital Summer School on the topic of Multichannel Instruments taking place from September 14-18 2026, preceeded by the Sonic Saturday during the Ars Electronica Festival from September 10-11 2026. The summer school is a multidisciplinary collaboration between the University of Arts Linz, Bruckner University Linz, the Ionian University of Corfu, the University of Genoa and USJ Macau. The goal of the summer school is the development ideas, prototypes, controllers and instruments for our OTTOsonics multichannel system, which is an opportunity to learn about ambisonics and the tangible interaction design for multichannel sound environments.
You will work with an international team of multidisciplinary experts who will cover the following topics that are relevant for the design of musical instruments for multichannel environments: ambisonics programming, multichannel composition, embodied computing, musical interaction design and rapid prototyping. There will be also concerts at the Sonic Lab at Bruckneruni and Alter Bauhhof in Ottensheim and hopefully also some party during that week.
Phonoptosphere by Boris Shershenkov in our DodekaOTTO multichannel system. We will have various multichannel installations based on our OTTOsonics system on site, such as the 20.1-channel Dodekaotto, a 23.1 Ambisonics hemisphere in our studio as well as several other multichannel topologies, such as 8-channel rings etc. Below you can find the preliminary schedule of the planned summer school activities.
