Dr. Sebastian Merchel, born in 1980, is a researcher at the Chair of Acoustics and Haptics at TU Dresden. He studied electrical engineering and acoustics at TU Dresden and Aalborg University in […]

Masimba Hwati is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice weaves sculpture, sound, performance, micro-politics, and indigenous philosophy into experimental frameworks that explore everyday forms of resistance and negotiation. He holds a PhD in […]

Luke Franzke is a creative technologist and lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). His work explores materiality, sensory qualities, creative coding, and intraoral interfaces, with a background spanning UI […]

Sounding InfrastructuresOur engagement with creative processes—from making to perceiving—is profoundly influenced by an often invisible yet ever-present layer of infrastructures.In this talk, Till Bovermann will examine the underlying systems that shape our […]

Viola Yip, born and raised in Hong Kong, now based in Berlin, is an experimental composer, performer, improviser, sound artist and instrument builder. In her practice, she develops unorthodox self-built instruments, compositions […]

Karl Ekdahl is a musician and instrument designer who aims to create experimental instruments that can be mass-produced on a smaller scale, making them economically accessible to a wider audience. His work […]

Passepartout Duo’s work investigates the ways in which we listen to and connect with sound. By exploring the unrealized potential of machines and non-univocal ways of relating to them, the group continually […]

Kacper Ziemianin a.k.a. ‘Ctrl Freq’ has a background in classical music and a lot of adventures in modern sound and music. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sonic Arts from Middlsex University, […]

Environment, Climate, and Music: Artistic Research from The Sound Collectors Lab This presentation explores ways to tune in to the relationships between musical practices and global challenges of our time, with a […]

Meng Qi is a pioneering synthesizer designer and musician. His thoughts center on the duality of instruments: control/chaos, harmony/noise, quantization/continuity, and so on, and he embodies these concepts in highly gestural interfaces. […]