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    Highlights Computer Music and Sound Technology

    Premiere of Olga Kokcharova's piece «Sculpter la voûte. Alteration» at the Festival Archipel in Geneva. April 2, 2022 ©2022, Greg Clement
    Premiere of Olga Kokcharova's piece «Sculpter la voûte. Alteration» at the Festival Archipel in Geneva. April 2, 2022 ©2022, Greg Clement
    • Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact
    • Promotion of Talents and Careers
    • Cooperation and Internationality
    • External Funding
    • Event Highlight: Cooperation with the «Sonic Matter» Festival
    • Reading Tip: Research article on the acoustic complexity of forest floors
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    «In 2022, the end of major project cycles will coincide with a renewal of ICST staff. A new cycle is on the horizon. The impact of PhD programmes, a closer orientation towards artistic practice and questions concerning transfer and outreach will shape this new phase.»

    Prof. Germán Toro Pérez, Head of the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST)
     

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    Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

    In 2022, ICST’s output was characterised to a large extent by artistic content. No less than three works created as part of the ICST’s artist-in-residence programme were presented at the Archipel Festival in Geneva in April. The artist-in-residence programme offers artists the opportunity to pursue a project in dialogue with ICST researchers. The institute benefits from the scientific and artistic research conducted in the process.

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    Promotion of Talents and Careers

    Márcio Steuernagel successfully defended his dissertation «Playing with Imperfection» and was awarded the highest possible grade by the examination committee. This artistic-scientific PhD project was realised within the PhD cooperation programme with Graz University of the Arts (Dr.Artium). Spanning the period 2018–2022, the project was supervised by Prof. Germán Toro Pérez (ZHdK, artistic part) and Prof. Andreas Dorschel (KUG, scientific part).

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    Cooperation and Internationality

    The concluding symposium of the SNSF project «Performing Live Electronic Music» brought together internationally renowned musicologists and composers at ZHdK for three days. In exchange with partner institutions such as IRCAM (Paris), Experimentalstudio (Freiburg i. Br.), IEM (Graz) and others, the four-year project examined the performance of live electronic music with regard to research desiderata and artistic practice.

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    External Funding

    Completed in 2022, the four-year project «HAPTEEV - Haptic Technology and Evaluation for Digital Musical Interfaces» explored the possibilities of vibrotactile feedback for digital musical instruments and interfaces to enhance user experience. The project resulted in numerous papers and the book Musical Haptics, published in 2019 and edited by ICST’s Stefano Papetti, among others.

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    Event Highlight: Cooperation with the «Sonic Matter» Festival

    Together with «Sonic Matter», the Zurich festival for experimental music, the ICST performed a concert with works by Eliane Radigue and Alvin Lucier in the sold-out lecture hall of the Museum für Gestaltung in early December. The ICST’s long-standing expertise in the diffusion and spatialisation of sound became audible in Lucier’s «Slices» and was an important contribution to this memorable event.

    Performance of Eliane Radigue's «Occam Ocean» at the «Sonic Matter» festival. December 3, 2022. ©2022, Kira Kynd.
      • Sendung auf Radio SRF 2 mit Ausschnitten aus dem Konzert

      • Aufnahme des ganzen Konzerts

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    Reading Tip: Research article on the acoustic complexity of forest floors

    The article «Temporal and Spatial Dynamics in Soil Acoustics and their Relation to Soil Animal Diversity» written by ICST research associate Marcus Maeder and others, presents findings on acoustic complexity in forest soils based on acoustic methods. The analysis of soil sounds proves to be a non-invasive means of monitoring soil biodiversity.

    Position of the soil sensors in Pfynwald (canton VS) and used acoustic and microclimatic sensors. ©2019, WSL, swissimage
    Graphics from the article: visualization of the values of two soil sensors (a); Forecast values for times of day and seasons (b).
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